FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 31, 2009

Contact Felisa Neuringer Klubes 202.663.5626
E-mail: fklubes@jhu.edu

                        JHU SAIS to Host Forum on Obama Administration’s Korea Policy

The Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) will hold a forum, “The Future of Northeast Asia’s Peace and Security: The Obama Administration’s Emerging Korea Policy,” on Monday, April 6 at 3 p.m.

This event, hosted by the U.S.-Korea Institute (USKI) at SAIS and the National Unification Advisory Council (NUAC), will feature a keynote address by Han Duk-soo, the Republic of Korea’s ambassador to the United States.

Following Han’s remarks, there will be a discussion with the following panelists:

·         Don Oberdorfer (moderator), chairman of the USKI at SAIS

·         Jared Genser, president of Freedom Now and partner at DLA Piper LLP

·         Charles “Jack” Pritchard, president of the Korea Economic Institute

·         Alan Romberg, distinguished fellow at the Stimson Center

·         Joel Wit, USKI visiting scholar and senior research fellow at Columbia University’s Weatherhead Institute for East Asian Studies

The forum, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Kenney Auditorium of the school’s Nitze Building, located at 1740 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Members of the public should RSVP to 202.663.5830 or http://www.uskoreainstitute.org/events/spring09/rsvp2.html.

Media who want to cover the event should contact Felisa Neuringer Klubes in the SAIS Communications Office at 202.663.5626 or fklubes@jhu.edu.