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                          style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">July
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                            style="font-family:Gulim">Ned Price</span></span></strong></p>
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                    <div align="center"><font size="5">Former
                        Spokesperson US Department of State<br>
                        Former Senior Advisor to Secretary of State
                        Anthony J Blinken</font></div>
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                              style="font-family:Gulim">Virtual</span></span><br>
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                              style="font-size:large">Address</span></em></span></strong></div>
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                            class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Summer
                          Symposium<span
                            class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Veritas<span
                              class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>2025</span></span></p>
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                                style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">US National
                                Security and World Affairs</span></span></span><span
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                              style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The
                              Korean Peninsula Issues and US National
                              Security<span
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                    <div align="center"><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:large">August 7 2025 7:00
                        PM \u2013 8:15 PM EDT Washington DC<br>
                          August 8 2025  8:00 AM \u2013 9:15 AM KST Seoul JST
                        Tokyo</span></div>
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                    <span style="font-size:large">Dear Friend:       </span><span
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style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size:x-large">We are
                      pleased to share with you that Ned Price will
                      address the virtual</span><span
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                        class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>ICAS</em></span><span
style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size:x-large"><span
                        class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Summer
                      Symposium<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Veritas<span
                          class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>2025
                      with a particular emphasis on "US National
                      Security and World Affairs" on August 7, 2025,
                      Washington DC.</span><span
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                        size="5">Ned Price most recently served as the
                        Deputy to the US Representative to the United
                        Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, overseeing the
                        US Mission to the United Nations\u2019 Washington
                        office and, as a Deputy Cabinet-level official,
                        serving as a standing member of the National
                        Security Council\u2019s Deputies Committee. Ned began
                        his most recent stint in government at the
                        Department of State in January 2021, when he
                        assumed the role of Department Spokesperson, a
                        title Ned held until March 2023. He then served
                        as Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Antony J
                        Blinken until Ned took on his leadership role
                        with the US Mission to the UN. </font></p>
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                        size="5">Prior to the State Department, Ned was
                        Co-Founder and Director of Policy and
                        Communications at National Security Action, a
                        non-profit advocacy organization. During the
                        Obama Administration, he served as Special
                        Assistant to President Obama on the National
                        Security Council staff, where Ned also was the
                        Spokesperson and Senior Director for Strategic
                        Communications. He previously was at the Central
                        Intelligence Agency, where he was a senior
                        analyst and Spokesperson. Ned has been an NBC
                        News analyst and contributor and taught at
                        Georgetown University and The George Washington
                        University. He graduated<span
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                          cum laude</i><span
                          class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>from
                        Georgetown University\u2019s School of Foreign
                        Service and received a Master\u2019s from Harvard
                        University\u2019s Kennedy School of Government. Ned
                        is originally from Dallas, Texas, and is a
                        lifetime member of the Council on Foreign
                        Relations. </font></p>
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