On Tuesday, November 15, 2016, the Sejong Institute held a symposium with Stanford APARC on the topic of ‘The New U.S. Administration’s East Asian Policy and the Korean Peninsula.’

The symposium, as part of a biannual closed discussion of ‘Sejong-West Coast Strategic Forum’ that the Sejong Insitute holds with the Stanford APARC, was specially held as an open roundtable. The Roundtable was moderated by Myung-hwan Yu (Chairman of the Sejong University and Former ROK Minister of Foreign Affairs) and the discussants included Francis Fukuyama (Director of Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law), Michael McFaul (Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Former US Ambassador to Russia), Karl Eikenberry (Director of the US-Asia Security Initiative and Former US Ambassador to Afghanistan), Kathleen Stephens (William J. Perry Distinguished Fellow of the Shorenstein APARC and Former US Ambassador to Korea), Yoon-joe Shim (Visiting Professor of Kookmin University and Former Representative of the National Assembly), and Sang Hyun Lee (Vice President for Research Planning at the Sejong Institute). The participants discussed the new Trump administration’s policy orientation on Korean Peninsula and Eat Asia, and shared views on policy implications for Korea.