{"id":5032,"date":"2015-05-15T15:02:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T15:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=5032"},"modified":"2015-05-15T15:02:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T15:02:56","slug":"geopolitical-ripples-cracking-the-code-of-the-north-korea-japan-diplomatic-game-tai-seminar-at-yonsei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2015\/05\/15\/geopolitical-ripples-cracking-the-code-of-the-north-korea-japan-diplomatic-game-tai-seminar-at-yonsei\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Geopolitical Ripples: Cracking the Code of the North Korea-Japan Diplomatic Game TAI Seminar at Yonsei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Arirang Institute &amp; Asia Institute Seminar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Geopolitical Ripples: Cracking the Code of the North Korea-Japan Diplomatic Game&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, June 30, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>4:30-6:00 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New Millennium Hall, \u00a0Room 701<\/p>\n<p>Yonsei University<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although Japan has consistently postulated North Korea as a security threat and the conservative governments of Japan have taken a hard line on abductee issues and other matters, in fact Prime Minister Koizumi visited North Korea twice (whereas no leader of Korea or the United States had done so recently) and a series of confidential negotiations between Japan and North Korea have been carried out recently. What exactly is Japan trying to achieve through its back channel conversations with North Korea and what might be the larger implications of these actions for the region?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Opening Remarks<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mike Lammbrau , Bureau Chief of the Arirang Institute<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moderator:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emanuel Pastreich, Director of the Asia Institute<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Panelists:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor Jin Kai, Research Fellow<br \/>\nCenter for International Studies,\u00a0Yonsei University<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kim Changsu, Senior Researcher, Korea Institute Defense Analysis<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arirang Institute &amp; Asia Institute Seminar \u00a0 \u00a0 &#8220;Geopolitical Ripples: Cracking the Code of the North Korea-Japan Diplomatic Game&#8221; \u00a0 Tuesday, June 30, 2015 \u00a0 4:30-6:00 PM \u00a0 \u00a0 New Millennium Hall, \u00a0Room 701 Yonsei University \u00a0 \u00a0 &nbsp; &nbsp; Although Japan has consistently postulated North Korea as a security threat and the conservative governments &#8230; <a title=\"&#8220;Geopolitical Ripples: Cracking the Code of the North Korea-Japan Diplomatic Game TAI Seminar at Yonsei\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2015\/05\/15\/geopolitical-ripples-cracking-the-code-of-the-north-korea-japan-diplomatic-game-tai-seminar-at-yonsei\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about &#8220;Geopolitical Ripples: Cracking the Code of the North Korea-Japan Diplomatic Game TAI Seminar at Yonsei\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4333],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}