Good afternoon. Im the senior director for Congressional Affairs and trade at the korean economic institute. I would like to thank you for coming. This past fall south korea went through a process that ultimately led to early this winter the impeachment of former president , which the resulted in a snap president ial election in south korea. We have gone through the election and moon jaein has become the president of south korea. Unlike prior president s, because of the nature of this election he has a transition period transition period. We talk about how this election will impact u. S. Korea relations, policies towards north korea, economic relations between our countries and a series of other important issues. We are fortunate to have three very good experts, as well as john burton of the financial , now with the korea times. With john we have scott snyder from the council of foreign relations. We had Bruce Klinger from the heritage foundation, and for a chong. Omen ho i want to tur
Good afternoon. Im the senior director for Congressional Affairs and trade at the korean economic institute. I would like to thank you for coming. This past fall south korea went through a process that ultimately led to early this winter the impeachment of former president , which the resulted in a snap president ial election in south korea. We have gone through the election and moon jaein has become the president of south korea. Unlike prior president s, because of the nature of this election he has a transition period transition period. We talk about how this election will impact u. S. Korea relations, policies towards north korea, economic relations between our countries and a series of other important issues. We are fortunate to have three very good experts, as well as john burton of the financial , now with the korea times. With john we have scott snyder from the council of foreign relations. We had Bruce Klinger from the heritage foundation, and for a chong. Omen ho i want to tur
And so the risk of almost all of the flash point issues is whether or not we can manage them without them being politicized. There is probably some kind of wiggle room to address some concerns that are outstanding related to the agreement. I think in a way the bigger issues, they are looking at them from different perspectives. The koreans havent caught up to the idea that for trump the only thing that matters is the merchandise trade balance. That is a contested view. I think even within the u. S. And probably it is going to take some effort to absorb that and try to figure out how to respond to that. They will need some time to put together a strategy on that i think. Yeah. I think a lot of it is the intent and the messaging. You can say maybe there is a mechanism for doing that. Some things didnt work out as well as you wanted to. You can say why dont we gret the folks together and youre willing to walk away from it. If its negotiating it may be counter productive coming in with gun
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