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Thanks, Jason, for encouraging readers to take a look at the transcript of the forum we put together back in March. We managed to bring together a distinguished panel of speakers representing many points of view on the challenge.

Prof. Moon advised the previous administration (Kim Dae-jung's) and is an influential advisor to the current SK gov't. He used to teach in the US but now teaches at Yonsei University (Seoul).

Prof. Cha is a well known commentator and the co-author of a book on NK nuclear development efforts and US policy options. He's a Korea specialist at Georgetown.

Prof. Shirk is a former deputy sec. of state and heads the Univ. of California global conflict research program. She's a China specialist teaching at UCSD.

Prof. Morse is a former Defense and Energy dept. staffer and a widely-read commentator on NE Asia (incidentally, he's currently doing a lot of work on the Japanese digital entertainment industry, please see http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=2931 for more on that). He holds the Terasaki Chair in US-Japan relations at UCLA.

Prof. Duncan is a historian of Korea and heads our Center for Korean Studies. The US gov't sent him as a soldier to Korea. He eventually earned his BA at Korea University. He writes a biweekly column on current affairs for a Korean newspaper.

UCLA Chancellor Carnesale is the former head of the Kennedy School of Gov't at Harvard. He is an expert on nuclear weapons and on arms control.

Prof. C.H. Lee heads Claremont McKenna's int'l and gov't studies program and has written extensively on Korean politics.

Prof. N.H. Lee is a historian specializing in student movements in Korea. She teaches at UCLA.

Dr. Levin is a Korea specialist at RAND Corporation and has written extensively on popular opinion in South Korea.

Dr. Gilinsky is a physicist and a former staffer for several nuclear-related agencies including the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Rather than a few minutes of sound bites, this three hour forum permitted speakers to map out their ideas and to respond to each others observations. The website includes links to some of the published works of these speakers.

Please visit: http://international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=3407.

smiling,
clay

I've attached the first file, dk1.ppt. If you have Powerpoint, you can open and view it, if not, please view the web version of the presentation. Click here to see the web version of the presentation.

Here is the third part of the presentation. Unfortunately, the forum cannot currently accept .swf and .html attachments. Send me an email and I'll forward you copies of the Joint Security Area flash animation. You can also download them from the last page of the web presentation. Scroll down to slide 75 (the frame on the left side of the screen) to get there.