Tailored Engagement: Toward an Effective and Sustainable Inter-Korean Relations Policy

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With the strategic situation on and around the Korean Peninsula continuing to worsen, Shorenstein APARC Director Gi-Wook Shin and his colleagues recently issued a major policy study arguing that South Korea is the only power in the region that might be both willing and able to change the current dangerous trajectory. In “Tailored Engagement: Toward an Effective and Sustainable Inter-Korean Relations Policy,” they explain how a more proactive South Korean approach to engaging North Korea could achieve important initial goals and eventually contribute to resolving fundamental issues on the peninsula. In this first presentation of their study at Stanford University, the co-authors will review the background to the research, lay out the study’s key recommendations, and discuss the reception it has received in Seoul, where it was first presented at a formal hearing of the South Korean National Assembly.

Gi-Wook Shin is a senior fellow at FSI and professor of sociology at Stanford University. David Straub is associate director of the Korea Program at Shorenstein APARC and a former director of the office of Korean affairs in the US Department of State. Dan Sneider is associate director for research at Shorenstein APARC.