The Korea Society
11/01/2012
8:30 am - 01/16/2026
10:00 am
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER
China-North Korea Relations: Fast Forward
November 1
8:30AM
In this latest installment of The Korea Society’s highly popular series on China-North Korea relations, Harvard University Belfer Center Associate and MIT Stanton Foundation Fellow John Park reviews new developments, with an eye toward regime consolidation in Pyongyang, party-to-party relations, and the evolution of Chinese-style economic zones in North Korea. Dr. Park previously worked at the U.S. Institute of Peace, in Goldman Sachs’s public finance group, as project leader of the Harvard Kennedy School’s North Korea Analysis Group, and in the Boston Consulting Group’s financial services practice. His writings have appeared in the Washington Quarterly, Wall Street Journal Asia, Financial Times, Jane’s Intelligence Review, International Herald Tribune, and from Stanford University Press.
$10 Members, $5 Students, $20 Guests
Thursday, November 1
8:15AM Registration & Light Breakfast
8:30AM Discussion
with
Dr. John Park, Associate, Belfer Center, Harvard University
Moderated by Dr. Stephen Noerper, Senior Vice President, The Korea Society
About the Speaker
Dr. John S. Park is the Stanton Foundation Junior Faculty Fellow at MIT and an associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He previously directed Northeast Asia Track 1.5 projects at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP). These included the Korea Working Group, the U.S.-China Project on Crisis Avoidance & Cooperation, the U.S.-ROK-Japan Trilateral Dialogue in Northeast Asia, and the U.S.-PRC-Japan Dialogue on Risk Reduction & Crisis Prevention. He advises Northeast Asia policy-focused officials at the Departments of Defense, State and the Treasury, as well as on the National Security Council and Congressional committees.
Dr. Park previously worked at Goldman Sachs, where he specialized in U.S. military privatization financing projects. Prior to that, he was the project leader of the North Korea Analysis Group at the Harvard Kennedy School. He previously worked in Goldman Sachs’ M&A Advisory Group in Hong Kong and The Boston Consulting Group’s Financial Services Practice in Seoul.
Dr. Park’s writings have appeared in Wall Street Journal Asia, Financial Times, Jane’s Intelligence Review, International Herald Tribune (international edition of The New York Times), and Washington Quarterly. His publications include: “Assessing the Role of Security Assurances in Dealing with North Korea” in Security Assurances and Nuclear Nonproliferation (Stanford University Press, 2012); “North Korea, Inc.: Gaining Insights into North Korean Regime Stability from Recent Commercial Activities” (USIP Working Paper, May 2009); “North Korea’s Nuclear Policy Behavior: Deterrence and Leverage,” in The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia (Stanford University Press, 2008).
Dr. Park received his M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Cambridge University and completed his pre-doctoral and postdoctoral training at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.
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