[KS] Conference announcement: Beyond Armistice: Korea –Australia Cooperation for Peace and Security

[Timothy Savage]

Invitation to a Public Forum:
“Beyond Armistice – Korea-Australia relations for peace and security”
International Conference Room, Yonsei University,
1.30 pm – 5.00 pm, Thursday, June 17th

At this important moment in Northeast Asia strategic developments, Nautilus Institute and Center for Australian Studies at Yonsei University invite you to a public forum titled “Beyond Armistice – Korea-Australia relations for peace and security”.

The meeting, which is supported by the Australia-Korea Foundation will feature leading Korean and Australian and United States researchers, business leaders and NGO activists addressing a range of strategic concerns shared by the two countries and which tie them together more than many people realize. 

Topics include:
Korea beyond the armistice 
Six decades of security and business ties
Is nuclear extended deterrence necessary or effective? 
A Korea-Japan nuclear weapon free zone
The Australia-Korea nuclear energy connection
Korea and Australia in alliance wars 

Speakers include:
Kim Ki-jung (Yonsei University) 
Colin Heseltine (former Australian ambassador to ROK)
Suh Jae-jung (Johns Hopkins University)
Peter Hayes (Executive Director, Nautilus Institute)
Song Young-sun (National Assembly member) (tbc)
John Walker (Macquarie Capital, Korea)
Choe Kwan-kyoo, (Korea Institute of Nonproliferation and Arms Control)
David Hundt (Deakin University)

We look forward to seeing you at the public forum on “Beyond Armistice – Korea-Australia relations for peace and security” on June 17th. 

best wishes

Richard Tanter (Director, Nautilus Institute RMIT)
Kiho Yi (Director, Nautilus ARI)
Heejin Lee (Director, Center for Australian Studies)


(Simultaneous interpretation will be available)


-------------------- Timothy L. Savage "As long as mankind shall bestow more liberal applause on its destroyers than on its benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters." -- Edward Gibbon "Where are now the warring kings?" -- William Butler Yeats

 		 	   		  
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