WATCH: “Undoing 70 Years of War: A Roundtable on Advancing Peace in Korea”

On Monday, July 27 — the 67th anniversary of the signing of the Korean War armistice — leading experts on Korea and U.S.-Korean relations discussed how a peace agreement can resolve the security crisis on the Korean Peninsula. This event featured the authors of the forthcoming Path to Peace report, which will be released in fall 2020 by Korea Peace Now!, a global movement of women working to end the Korean War. The event was co-hosted by Women Cross DMZ, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and The American Conservative.

Introductions were given by Christine Ahn (Executive Director of Women Cross DMZ), Suzanne DiMaggio (Chairman of Quincy Institute), and Kelley Vlahos (Executive Editor of The American Conservative). Welcome statements were made by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA17) and Doug Bandow (Cato Institute). 

SPEAKERS: 

• Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, Senior Fellow and Military Expert at Defense Priorities
• Henri Feron, Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy
• Jessica Lee, Senior Research Fellow on East Asia at Quincy Institute
• Adam Mount, Senior Fellow and Director of the Defense Posture Project at the Federation of American Scientists
• Hazel Smith, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London
• Moderated by Katharine H.S. Moon, Professor of Political Science and the Wasserman Chair of Asian Studies at Wellesley College