Between War and Peace in Korea: Prospects for Inter-Korean Relations

A talk with Dr. MOON Chung-in, special advisor to the President MOON Jae-in of South Korea, for foreign affairs and national security. He was a special delegate to the first (2000) and second (2007) Korean summits both of which were held in Pyongyang.

 
The Korean peninsula went through a series of crisis in 2017, but a sudden breakthrough came just before the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in February.

Departing from its confrontational and even hostile posture, North Korea has decided to participate in the event, thawing icy inter-Korean relations for the time being. As most South Koreans as well as the world wished, a peaceful Pyeongchang Winter Olympics have come true.

But would the peaceful Pyeongchang Olympics lead to a lasting Olympic peace, involving tension reduction on the Korean peninsula, inter-Korean confidence-building measures, and eventually the denuclearization of North Korea?

 

The talk will explore these issues by focusing on the post-Pyongchang era as well as policy efforts of the Moon Jae-in government to bring peace to the Korean peninsula.

 

Chaired by Mark Maloney, Vice-Dean,Paris School of International Affairs of Sciences Po (PSIA).