<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><section class="event-details" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(115, 115, 115); font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif;"><div class="field field--name-field-cu-content field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden field--items" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field--item" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px;"><div id="text-503" class="paragraph paragraph--type--text paragraph--view-mode--default anchored" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field field--name-field-cu-wysiwyg field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Speaker: </strong>Joel S. Wit, Distinguished Fellow in Asian and Security Studies, The Stimson Center</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Moderator: </strong>Barbara Demick, the author of<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea </em>(2009) and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins</em>(2025). <br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Joel S. Wit is a Distinguished Fellow in Asian and Security Studies at the Stimson Center. Wit is an internationally recognized expert on Northeast Asia security issues. As a U.S. State Department official, he helped negotiate the 1994 US-DPRK Agreed Framework and was subsequently in charge of its implementation until he left government in 2002, holding countless talks with North Korean officials, including the military and nuclear establishments. Wit served as a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies US-Korea Institute from 2007-2018, a Senior Fellow at CSIS from 2002-2006. He has previously served a consultant to the National Academy of Science and an Adjunct Senior Researcher at Columbia University\u2019s Weatherhead Institute for Asian Studies. Wit is a co-author (with Robert Gallucci and Daniel Poneman) of Going Critical: The First North Korea Nuclear Crisis, the winner of the American Academy of Diplomacy\u2019s 2004 prize for best book. He has written extensively in publications ranging from Foreignpolicy.com to the New York Times and is a regular expert guest on television shows (e.g. PBS Newshour, CNN\u2019s The Situation Room and BBC) and radio (e.g. National Public Radio and BBC Radio).</p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Joel S. Wit will discuss his book <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fallout: The Inside Story of America\u2019s Failure to Disarm North Korea </em>on Friday November 7, 2025.</p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Wit\u2019s upcoming book \u201cFallout: The Inside Story of America\u2019s Failture to Disarm North Korea provides a masterful account of why U.S. efforts to halt North Korea\u2019s nuclear ambitions have repeatedly fallen short. Drawing on more than 300 interviews with policymakers in Washington, Beijing, Seoul, and even Pyongyang, Wit reconstructs the high-stakes negotiations and secret diplomatic strategies that shaped nearly four decades of nuclear diplomacy.</p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">He challenges prevailing narratives by offering a nuanced portrait of Kim Jong Un\u2014not as irrational or impulsive\u2014but as a strategic negotiator using nuclear escalation as leverage. He argues that transformations under the Obama and Trump administrations accelerated Pyongyang\u2019s capabilities, making the North a threat to every U.S. city.</p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">This event is hosted by the Center for Korean Research at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Registration:</strong></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">To attend this event <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">in-person</strong>, please register <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fallout-the-inside-story-of-americas-failure-to-disarm-north-korea-tickets-1708761193729?aff=oddtdtcreator" rel="noopener" target="_blank" tabindex="-1" class="external" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">HERE</strong></a><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</strong></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">To attend this event <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">online</strong>, please register <a href="https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VB0AFeuPTTSB6j1zaKbQfw" rel="noopener" target="_blank" tabindex="-1" class="external" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">HERE</strong></a><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</strong></li></ul><div><b><font color="#e32400"><br></font></b></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font color="#e32400"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">PLEASE NOTE: </strong></em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">For non-Columbia guests, registration is required to access the Morningside campus</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">24 hours prior to the event.</strong></em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 12:00 PM on Thursday, November 6 for campus access.</strong></em></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font color="#e32400">Names will be submitted for QR codes 1-2 days prior to the event and subsequently reviewed. Registrants will receive an email from CU Guest Access with the QR code before or on the day of the event. </font></em></p></div></div></div></div></div></section><section class="event-contact-information" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(115, 115, 115); color: rgb(115, 115, 115); font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85) !important;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Contact Information</span></h3><div class="field field--name-field-cu-event-contact-name field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Junho Peter Yoon</div><div class="field field--name-field-cu-event-contact-email field--type-email field--label-hidden field--item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="mailto:jy3070@columbia.edu" tabindex="-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(33, 100, 151);">jy3070@columbia.edu</a></div></section></body></html>