Message from President  

  Issues and Analyses published in March 2019

■ Sejong Policy Briefs

	“ The INF Treaty Regime in Crisis and South Korea(ROK)’s Response” | Eunsook Chung
	“ The U.S. Perception of the Second DPRK-U.S. Summit and Future Prospects” | Jung-Yeop Woo
	[Confidential Report] “Assessing Current Situation on the Korean Peninsula and Issues between the U.S. and South Korea (ROK)” | Jung-Yeop Woo

■ Current Issues and Policies

“2019 Munich Security Conference: Uncertainty in Liberal International Order” | Eunsook Chung

■ Sejong Commentary

	“The Collapse of the Second DPRK-U.S. Summit: Japan’s Reaction and Assessment” | Myon Woo Lee
	“The View from ASEAN: President Moon Jae-in’s Visit to Southeast Asia” | Chiew-Ping Hoo
	“China Learning to “Live without the U.S.”” | Seong-hyon Lee
	“The ROK-U.S. Summit on April 11 and South Korea’s Role for the Nuclear Agreement between the U.S. and North Korea: Panmunjom Inter-Korean Summit for Persuasion and President Trump’s Visit to North Korea as a Bargaining Card” | Seong-Chang Cheong
	“Criteria for Success of the Third DPRK-U.S. Summit and Directions of Bilateral Nuclear Agreement: Entrusting the Interlocutors with Full Authority and Implementing the Denuclearization and Corresponding Measures Simultaneously” | Seong-Chang Cheong

  Sejong in News

	“[Opinion] Kim Yong-chol and John Bolton” | Seong-hyon Lee	[The Korea Times]
	“[Expert] North Korea Pulls Staff From Liaison Office, Sending South a Message” | Seong-Chang Cheong	[The New York Times]
	“[Expert] South Korea’s Moon Faces New Pressure to Revive Trump-Kim Talks” | Seong-Chang Cheong	[Bloomberg]
	“[Expert] 'Tense situation': North Korea convenes top-level meeting” | Seong-Chang Cheong	[Al Jazeera News]
	“[Expert] Moon Jae-in looks to revive nuclear talks with Donald Trump” | Seong-hyon Lee	[Financial Times]
	“[Expert] Kim Jong Un takes shot at US ahead of Trump-Moon talks” | Seong-Chang Cheong	[Nikkei Asian Review]
	“[Expert] N Korea’s Kim calls top-level meeting over ‘tense situation’” | Seong-Chang Cheong	[The Phnom Penh Post]
	“[Expert] Kim Jong-un Says He’s Open to Another Trump Meeting, With Conditions” | Seong-Chang Cheong	[The New York Times]
	“[Expert] North Korea Tests New Weapon, State News Agency Says” | Jung-Yeop Woo	[The New York Times]

On March 19, the Sejong Institute held the seventh colloquium of the year on the topic of the “INF Treaty and Its Future.” Senior Research Fellow Chung Eunsook presented her thoughts on the subject. The colloquium was moderated by Lee Daewoo, Head of the Department of Security Strategy Studies. 

On April 2, the Sejong Institute held the eight colloquium of the year on the topic of the “Assessing Current Situation on the Korean Peninsula and Issues between the U.S. and South Korea(ROK).” Research Fellow Woo Jung-yeop presented his thoughts on the subject. The colloquium was moderated by Cheong Seong-Chang, Vice President of the Research Planning Division.   

On March 6, the Sejong Institute held the second Sejong Policy Forum for the year 2019 on the topic of “Assessment of the Second DPRK-US Summit and Future Tasks.” Professor Jin Hee-gwan (Inje University), Research Fellow Min Tae Eun (Korea Institute for National Unification, KINU), Professor Kim Jae Cheol (The Catholic University of Korea), Senior Research Fellow Park Jong Chul (KINU) presented their thoughts on the topic.