April 20, 2021 ㅡ Asia Society Korea held a special session of Monthly Lecture Series on the North Korean military and invited two North Korea experts, one from the military and the other from the academia. ROK Army
General (ret.) In-Bum Chun, former commander of the ROK Special Warfare Command, and
Dr. Andrei Lankov, director of Korea Risk Group and professor of history at Kookmin University, joined as guest speakers and shared their thoughts on the future dynamics of the Korean Peninsula and the East Asian region under North Korea's military threat. LTG (ret.) Chun, while acknowledging Pyongyang’s outsized investment into conventional forces and military parades, emphasized the proven ability of the ROK-U.S. alliance to win at wars. The discussion was moderated by