On Friday 25 July 2008, Ralph Cossa, President of the Pacific Forum CSIS, will speak on "Denuclearising North Korea – prospects and problems" from 11am-12pm.
Following up the destruction of the reactor cooling tower at Yongbyon and North Korea’s declaration of its plutonium programme last month, the recent meeting of the Six Party Talks on Korean denuclearization received mixed reactions. According to China, the parties reached an important consensus: the DPRK agreed to disable its main reactor by the end of October and allow international inspections to verify its nuclear declaration. But others noted that no accord was reached on the specifics of verification, and some doubt was expressed about whether it can be done in time to allow completion of US actions to remove North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism and the Trading with the Enemy Act. IISS is pleased to welcome Ralph Cossa to shed light on these developments and help us understand the regional implications.
Ralph Cossa is president of the Pacific Forum CSIS in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is also senior editor of the Forum’s quarterly electronic journal, Comparative Connections. Cossa is a board member of the Council on U.S.-Korean Security Studies and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, as well as the ASEAN Regional Forum Experts and Eminent Persons Group, and he is a founding member of the Steering Committee of the multinational Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP). Mr. Cossa is a political/military affairs and national security specialist with more than 30 years of experience in formulating, articulating, and implementing U.S. security policy in the Asia-Pacific and Near East–South Asia regions.
This meeting will be Chaired by Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Non-Proliferation and will take place on the Fourth Floor at Arundel House, 13-15 Arundel Street, Temple Place, London WC2R 3DX
If you would like to attend, please RSVP Kathleen James on james@iiss.org or tel.020 7395 9109
