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[WEBINAR] Peninsula Snapshot: Politics, Security, and Economics on the Korean Peninsula
November 4, 2021 — Asia Society Korea brought together three renowned experts — Dr. Duyeon Kim, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for New American Security, Dr. Randall Jones, a non-resident fellow at the Korea Economic Institute, and Dr. David Tizzard, assistant professor at Seoul Women’s University — to discuss the current and future development of politics, security, and economics on the Korean Peninsula. The discussion was moderated by Dr. Mason Richey, Asia Society Korea Senior Contributor and Professor of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.
This conversation, based on their research presented in the recently edited volume The Future of the Korean Peninsula: 2032 and Beyond, offered an enlightening take on inter-Korean relations and the place of the Korean Peninsula in East Asia.
Dr. Mason Richey, Asia Society Senior Contributor (Moderator)
Mason Richey is a senior contributing writer to Asia Society Korea and an associate professor of international politics at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, South Korea). Dr. Richey has also held positions as a POSCO Visiting Research Fellow at the East-West Center (Honolulu, HI) and a DAAD Scholar at the University of Potsdam. His research focuses on U.S. and European foreign and security policy as applied to the Asia-Pacific. Recent scholarly articles have appeared (inter alia) in Pacific Review, Asian Security, Global Governance, and Foreign Policy Analysis. Shorter analyses and opinion pieces have been published in War on the Rocks, Le Monde, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, and Forbes, among other venues.
Dr. Richey received his Ph.D. from Binghamton University, New York.
Watch his recent appearance at our webinar on North Korean asymmetric capabilities here.
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Dr. Duyeon Kim, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security
Duyeon Kim is an adjunct senior fellow with the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security and columnist for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. She specializes in both regional and functional issues: the two Koreas, nuclear nonproliferation, East Asian relations, security, and negotiations.
She has written in leading publications including Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy. Kim is a frequent commentator on CNN and BBC among other networks, and quoted widely in global media including The Washington Post, The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Guardian, Yonhap News, and The Japan Times. Previously, she was senior advisor for Northeast Asia and Nuclear Policy at the International Crisis Group; associate in the nuclear policy and Asia programs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and senior fellow and deputy director of non-proliferation at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Kim holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Korea University, an M.S. in Foreign Service from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and a B.A. in English/Literature from Syracuse University. Kim has native proficiency in Korean and English..
Dr. Randall Jones, Non-Resident Fellow at Korea Economic Institute
Dr. Jones received the Decoration of the Order of the Rising Sun from the Government of Japan and the Sungnye Medal of the Order of Diplomatic Service Merit from the Government of Korea in 2018. Currently, Dr. Jones is a professional fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Japanese Economy and Business and a non-resident fellow at the Korea Economic Institute.
Previously, he was a visiting scholar at Columbia University in 2019-20. Dr. Jones served as the Senior Counsellor for East Asia and as Head of the Japan/Korea Desk at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris from 2002 until 2019. During his 30 years at the OECD, Dr. Jones wrote all 16 OECD Economic Surveys of Korea and 15 OECD Economic Surveys of Japan, in addition to a number of other publications.
Before joining the OECD in 1989, he spent three years in the US government, serving at the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President (1984-85), and as an advisor in the US State Department (1987-89). Dr. Jones was also the vice-president of the Japan Economic Institute in Washington (1985-87). Dr. Jones received a B.A. in Economics from Brigham Young University and a PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1984. He lived in Korea from 1974 to 1976 and in Japan during 1982-83.
Read more of his work for the Peninsula Blog here.
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Dr. David Tizzard, Assistant Professor at Seoul Women's University
David Tizzard has a PhD in Korean Studies. He lectures at Seoul Women's University and Hanyang University on contemporary Korean issues. He is co-editor of the volume The Future of the Korean Peninsula: Korea 2032 and Beyond.
David also writes a weekly column in the Korea Times and is the host of the podcast Korea Deconstructed.
