When: October 29, 2009   7:00 pm

Speaker:  Nicole Finnemann, Peter Beck, Kevin Logan, Dr. Louis Ortmayer

What's life like for the North Korean People?
How does the Kim Jong-il regime rule?
What are the real security threats that North Korea poses?
....And what can be done??

A panel of experts will address these questions:

Nicole Finnemann, of the Korea Economic Institute in Washington, D.C. will give an Introduction to North Korea & North Korean governance.
Kevin Logan, of the FBI, will discuss the security challenges of North Korea.
Peter Beck, a North Korea expert at Stanford Unviersity, will present some of the humanitarian and human rights dilemmas in North Korea.
Dr. Louis Ortmayer, professor of Political Science at Davidson College, will provide insight on U.S. Policy on North Korea.

Featuring visiting speakers:

• Nicole Finnemann, Director of Research & Academic Affairs, Korea Economic Institute, Washington, D.C.
  Finnemann is the Director of Research & Academic Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute and is responsible for issues related to North Korea and for academic outreach. Around the country, she organizes and speaks in KEI's numerous university programs and academic symposia. In Washington, Ms. Finnemann is responsible for programming and publications related to North Korea as well as KEI's Academic Paper series. Her primary substantive areas of interest are negotiation and North Korea. She returned from her first trip to Pyongyang in April, 2008. Following meetings with North Koreans, Ms. Finnemann authored and has since facilitated "Getting to Normal: A Six Party Talks Simulation" for hundreds of participants around the country, exposing them to the competing interests and needs of the six nations negotiating the denuclearization of North Korea.
  Outside of KEI, Ms. Finnemann has participated in referendum and peace agreement drafting for the Public International Law and Policy Group, co-founded the American University Negotiation Project, as well as LINC Negotiation Architects, a consultancy providing negotiation and mediation training materials. She also has over five years of primary and secondary-level teaching and curriculum design experience. Having lived in Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands, Italy, and South Korea, Ms. Finnemann speaks Spanish fluently as well as some Italian and Korean. She holds a B.A. in mathematics from Kalamazoo College and an M.A. in International Conflict Resolution from the American University's School of International Service.
• Kevin P. Logan, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C.
  Logan was appointed the FBI's first Senior Intelligence Officer for North Korea in August 2007. In this role, he is the FBI's senior substantive expert on North Korea and has responsibility for advising FBI executive management on intelligence matters related to the country and overseeing North Korea-related intelligence production. Prior to assuming this position, Mr. Logan was Chief of the Global Reports and Collection Management Unit in the FBI's Counterintelligence Division. Mr. Logan is a 1981 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. He was commissioned a Military Police Officer, but spent the majority of his Army career as a Northeast Asia Foreign Area Officer, in which his assignments included intelligence analysis, program management, and operational responsibilities related to the Korean Peninsula. During his military career, Mr. Logan served in a variety of command and staff positions, both in the United States and abroad, including two tours of duty in the Republic of Korea and one in Japan. While serving on the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, Mr. Logan had the unique opportunity to lead a joint service delegation into North Korea to conduct operations with the Korean People's Army to recover remains of U.S. personnel missing from the Korean War.
• Peter M. Beck, Pantech Fellow, Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center, Stanford University
  Peter M. Beck is the Pantech Research Fellow at Stanford University's Asia Pacific Research Center and serves on the National Committee on North Korea, based in Washington D.C. He also teaches at American University in Washington, D.C. and Ewha University in Seoul. Beck writes a monthly column for Weekly Chosun and The Korea Herald. Previously, he was the executive director of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and directed the International Crisis Group's Northeast Asia Project in Seoul.He was also the Director of Research and Academic Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute in Washington. He has served as a member of the Ministry of Unification's Policy Advisory Committee and as an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown and Yonsei universities. Previously, he was a columnist for the Korean daily Donga Ilbo, an instructor at the University of California at San Diego, a translator for the Korea Foundation, and a staff assistant at Korea's National Assembly and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has published over 100 academic and short articles, testified before Congress, and conducted interviews with the world's leading media outlets. He received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, completed the Korean language program at Seoul National University, and conducted his graduate studies at U.C. San Diego's Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies.

Other events associated with KEI's visit to campus:

• "Pursuing a Career in 'Something International'" a panel sponsored by the Career Services Office
• "Getting to Normal: A Six Party Talks Simulation"

Contact: Larissa Hohe  704-894-2440

Posted By: Larissa Hohe