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<div align="center"> <span
style="font-size: 18pt;">The Hon
Robert C O'Brien</span><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br>
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<div align="center"> <span
style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Co-Founder
and Chairman</span> <br>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial
Unicode MS;">American Global
Strategies LLC</span></span></span>
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<div align="center"> <span
style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial
Unicode MS;">former US National
Security Advisor <br>
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<div align="center"> <span
style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial
Unicode MS;">The White House<br>
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<div align="center"><b><i>Virtual
Address </i></b></div>
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style="font-family: Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif;"><em><span
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Symposium <em><span
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sans-serif;">Libertas 2023</span></em></span></span></div>
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sans-serif;">Geopolitics in
Asia Indo-Pacific and US
National Security</span></em></span></span>
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<div align="center"><span
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large;"><span style="font-size:
13.5pt;">The Korean Peninsula
Issues and US National Security</span></span>
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</font></u><span style="font-size:
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<p><span style="font-family:
Arial,sans-serif;"> We are pleased
to share with you that The Hon
Robert C O'Brien will address the
<em>ICAS</em> Fall Symposium <em>Libertas</em>
on "The Korean Peninsula Issues
and US National Security" on
October 4, 2023.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom: 22.5pt;
background: white;"><span
style="font-size: 13pt;
font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;">The
Hon Robert O'Brien is Co-founder
and Chairman of American Global
Strategies LLC. He was the 27th
United States National Security
Advisor from 2019 – 2021. Robert
served as the President’s
principal advisor on all aspects
of American foreign policy and
national security affairs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom: 22.5pt;
background: white;"><span
style="font-size: 13pt;
font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;">He
brought a renewed focus to defense
and industrial base issues to the
NSC. A long-time advocate of a sea
power and a 355 ship Navy, Robert
visited leading shipyards during
his tenure. He also spent time at
defense plants and with our troops
at bases around the world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom: 22.5pt;
background: white;"><span
style="font-size: 13pt;
font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;">During
O’Brien’s time as National
Security Advisor, the United
States orchestrated the historic
Abraham Accords in the Middle
East, brokered economic
normalization between Serbia and
Kosovo, achieved significant
defense spending increases among
our NATO allies and increased
cooperation with America’s allies
across the Indo-Pacific.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom: 22.5pt;
background: white;"><span
style="font-size: 13pt;
font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;">Prior
to serving as NSA, Robert was the
Special Presidential Envoy for
Hostage Affairs with the personal
rank of Ambassador. He was
directly involved in the return of
over 25 detainees and hostages to
the United States. Ambassador
O’Brien previously served as
Co-Chairman of the US Department
of State Public-Private
Partnership for Justice Reform in
Afghanistan under both Secretaries
of State Rice and Clinton.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom: 22.5pt;
background: white;"><span
style="font-size: 13pt;
font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;">Robert
was also a
presidentially-appointed member of
the US Cultural Property Advisory
Committee from 2008-2011. In 2005,
he was nominated by President
George W Bush and unanimously
confirmed by the US Senate to
serve as a US Representative to
the 60th session of the UN General
Assembly. Earlier in his career,
Robert served as a Senior Legal
Officer for the UN Security
Council commission that decided
claims against Iraq arising out of
the first Gulf War. He was a Major
in the Judge Advocate General’s
Corps of the U.S. Army Reserve.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom: 22.5pt;
background: white;"><span
style="font-size: 13pt;
font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;">Ambassador
O’Brien is partner emeritus at
Larson LLP in Los Angeles, a
nationally recognized litigation
boutique that he co-founded in
2016. Over his career, he has
served as counsel and arbitrator
in dozens of International
proceedings.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom: 22.5pt;
background: white;"><span
style="font-size: 13pt;
font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;">Robert
is the recipient of the National
Security Medal, the National
Intelligence Distinguished Service
Medal, the Department of Defense
Medal for Distinguished Public
Service, the National Defense
Medal, the Legion d’honneur
(chevalier), the Republic of China
(Taiwan) Order of the Brilliant
Star with Special Grand Cordon and
the Kosovo Presidential Medal of
Merits.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom: 22.5pt;
background: white;"><span
style="font-size: 13pt;
font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;">The
National Museum of the Surface
Navy named him the recipient of
the 2021 Freedom of the Seas
Award. That same year, Robert and
former Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo were awarded the Richard
Nixon Foundation’s Architect of
Peace Award for their work on the
Abraham Accords and other
initiatives while in office.
Following the signing of the
Abraham Accords in 2020, a tree
was planted on behalf of the State
of Israel at the John F Kennedy
Memorial Forest in the Hills of
Jerusalem in honor of Ambassador
O’Brien. In 2019, Robert received
the Dr Miriam and Sheldon Adelson
Award for the Defense of America
and Israel. The UC Berkeley School
of Law presented Ambassador
O’Brien with the Stefan A.
Riesenfeld Memorial Award for
outstanding contributions to the
field of international law in
2011.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom: 22.5pt;
background: white;"><span
style="font-size: 13pt;
font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;">In
July 2022, Robert was elected as
the Chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Richard Nixon
Foundation. He also serves as
co-chair with Secretary Pompeo of
The Nixon Seminar on Conservative
Realism and National Security.</span></p>
<span style="font-size: 13.0pt;
font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;
color: #002c51;"><span style="color:
#000000;">Robert holds a JD from
the UC Berkeley School of Law. He
received his BA degree in
political science, <em>cum laude</em>,
from UCLA.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial
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Sang Joo Kim<br>
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