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Korea Peace Day 2007 Conference report

On November 30, 2007, the ASCK Steering Committee sponsored (with the support of UCLA’s Center for Korean Studies) a Korea Peace Day 2007 event at UCLA, with the theme “Ending the War on Korea, Building Peace for Northeast Asia.” The program was as follows:

Welcome/Introduction
John Duncan, Director, Center for Korean Studies/Chair,
Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA

Panel 1
Moderator: Namhee Lee, Assistant Professor,
Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA

"Concentration camps, gulags, and slave labor: Naming incarceration in North Korea"
Seung Hye Suh, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English,
Scripps College

"Human Rights in North Korea: Does Strategy Matter?"
Suzy Kim, Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies,
Oberlin College

"US-Korean Relations: What Lies Ahead?"
Martin Hart-Landsberg, Professor of Economics/Director of
the Political Economy Program, Lewis and Clark College

Panel 2
Moderator: Theodore Jun Yoo, Associate Professor,
Dept. of History, University of Hawaii at Manoa

"The Korean War: Past, Present, Future"
Henry Em, Associate Professor, Dept. of Korean History,
Korea University

"Differing US and South Korean Perceptions of the Breakthrough"
John Feffer, Co-Director, Foreign Policy In Focus,
Institute for Policy Studies Foreign Policy in Focus

"The International Response to August/September Flooding in DPRK"
Karin Lee, Executive Director, National Committee on North Korea

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