Event

US-ROK-Japan Trilateral Relations

Rebuilding and Expanding Economic Cooperation

Date & Time

Tuesday

Dec. 5, 2023

9:00am – 12:15pm ET

Location

6th Floor Flom Auditorium, Woodrow Wilson Center
and Online

Event Sponsors

Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy

Indo-Pacific Program

Last August’s historic Trilateral Summit at Camp David cemented the US-ROK-Japan Trilateral Partnership on the global stage. Building upon this diplomatic success, the United States, South Korea, and Japan continue to seek avenues to institutionalize areas for expanded tripartite cooperation. Within the Indo-Pacific region and globally, the three countries have defined a focused agenda for enhancing and strengthening collaboration in supply chain resiliency, critical technologies, and energy security. Closer to home, Southeast Asia may present new opportunities for trilateral engagement. Though challenges remain, this conference examined key areas of economic cooperation that will shape the future of US-ROK-Japan partnership in the years to come.

The conference featured members of the Wilson Center’s 2023 Trilateral Commission, across two panel discussions. The first panel assessed areas of risk and opportunity for trade and supply chain resiliency among the three nations. The second panel explored areas of new growth for the partnership, including addressing the dual challenge of climate and energy policy as well as advancing regional engagement in North and Southeast Asia.

Please click on the word "agenda" above to see the full schedule for the event.

Tuesday, December 5

09:00am – 09:10am ET

Welcome Remarks

Ambassador Mark A. Green
President & CEO, Wilson Center

09:10am – 09:20am ET

Co-Chairs' Congratulatory Remarks

Ambassador John D. Negroponte
Chairman Emeritus of the Council of the Americas/Americas Society; Vice Chairman, McLarty Associates

Ambassador Kenichiro Sasae (Recorded Remarks)
President, the Japan Institute of International Affairs

Minister Sung-Hwan Kim
Chairman, East Asia Foundation; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea

09:20am – 09:30am ET

Keynote Speech

Speaker To Be Announced

09:30am – 10:45am ET

Panel I: Expanding US-ROK-Japan Trilateral Cooperation in Trade & Supply Chain Resiliency

Moderator
Shihoko Goto
Director for Geoeconomics and Indo-Pacific Enterprise and Acting Director, Asia Program, Wilson Center

Panelists
Minister Sung-Hwan Kim
Chairman, East Asia Foundation; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea

Ambassador Koji Tsuruoka (Remote)
President, International Affairs Research Institute; Formerly Ambassador to the UK (2016-2019)

Dr. Jaemin Lee (Remote)
Professor of Law at School of Law, Seoul National University

Troy Stangarone
Senior Director and Fellow at the Korea Economic Institute (KEI)

10:45am – 11:00am ET

Coffee Break

11:00am – 12:15pm ET

Panel II: Exploring New Frontiers for Trilateral Partnership in Energy, Climate, and Southeast Asia

Moderator
Kayla Orta
Senior Associate, Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy, Wilson Center

Panelists
Ambassador Negroponte (TBC)
Chairman Emeritus of the Council of the Americas/Americas Society; Vice Chairman, McLarty Associates

Dr. Suh-Yong Chung (Remote)
Professor of Division of International Studies, Korea University

James L. Schoff
Senior Director, US-Japan NEXT Alliance Initiative, Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA

Dr. Narushige Michishita (Remote)
Global Fellow, Former Japan Scholar; Executive Vice President, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

Dr. Jessica C. Liao
Associate Professor of Political Science, North Carolina University

12:15pm – 01:15pm ET

Luncheon

Thank you for joining us.

Speakers

Ambassador John D. Negroponte

Former Deputy Secretary of State

Ambassador Kenichiro Sasae

President, the Japan Institute of International Affairs

Sung-Hwan Kim

President of Taejae Future Consensus Institute; Chairman of East Asia Foundation

Introduction

Ambassador Mark A. Green

President & CEO, Wilson Center

Moderators

Shihoko Goto

Director, Indo-Pacific Program

Kayla Orta

Senior Associate, Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy

Panelists

Ambassador Koji Tsuruoka

President, International Affairs Research Institute; Formerly Ambassador to the UK (2016-2019)

Jaemin Lee

Professor of Law at School of Law, Seoul National University

Troy Stangarone

Director of the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy; Deputy Director of the Indo-Pacific Program

Suh-Yong Chung

Professor of Division of International Studies, Korea University

James L. Schoff

Senior Director, US-Japan NEXT Alliance Initiative, Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA

Narushige Michishita

Global Fellow, Former Japan Scholar;
Executive Vice President, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

Jessica Liao

Wilson China Fellow;
Associate Professor of Political Science, North Carolina State University.

Hosted By

Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy

The Center for Korean History and Public Policy was established in 2015 with the generous support of the Hyundai Motor Company and the Korea Foundation to provide a coherent, long-term platform for improving historical understanding of Korea and informing the public policy debate on the Korean peninsula in the United States and beyond. Read more

Indo-Pacific Program

The Indo-Pacific Program promotes policy debate and intellectual discussions on US interests in the Asia-Pacific as well as political, economic, security, and social issues relating to the world’s most populous and economically dynamic region. Read more

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