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With Tony Mitchell, Managing Director, KABC

Tuesday, June 9, 5:00PM

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Past Events

KCPC-HSF-EURAXESS NK Watchers RT

Main Topic for Discussion: Ramifications of the War in Iran
With Opening Remarks by:
Roland Wilson, "Possible Changes in U.S. Policy toward Europe and the Korean Peninsula Following the War"
Felix Glenk, "European Responses to Possible Changes in U.S. Policy toward Europe"
Dong-sun Park, "South Korea's Responses to Possible Changes in U.S. Policy toward the Korean Peninsula"

May 11, 2026

Year-End Dinner 2025 in Honor of Dr. Bernhard Seliger

The 2025 Year-End Dinner was attended by KCPC members and participants of the North Korea Watchers Roundtable in honor of our long-time partner, Dr. Bernhard Seliger of the Hanns Seidel Foundation, who is leaving South Korea after 26 years in Seoul.

December 16, 2025

Across the Tumen: What a Trip to China Revealed About the Future of Northeast Asia

James Younil Auh | Dean, Kyung Hee Cyber University In late November, I traveled to Yanbian in northeastern China for the inaugural Northeast Asia Cooperation Workshop, a joint initiative between KCPC and the Hanns Seidel Foundation. On the surface, it was a modest gathering: a series of meetings in Yanji, a few days of travel along the borderlands, and conversations shared around a table with scholars, NGO leaders, government officials, journalists, and businesspeople from t

North Korea and the “Victory Day” 2025

J.R. Kim | President, KCPC North Korea commemorates July 27—the date the Korean War armistice was signed in 1953—as “Victory Day.” From early childhood, North Koreans are taught that the Korean War was a “war of aggression” launched by the puppet regime of Syngman Rhee in South Korea, backed by American imperialists. According to this narrative, the North fought a counteroffensive war to liberate the South Korean people from U.S. imperialism. Despite failing to unify the peni