Good morning, everyone. Today i am wearing orange to observe that unjointed 21st, 2013, a High School Student from the south side of chicago marched in president obamas second inaugural parade. One week later he was shot and killed on a flagrant in chicago. Soon after his childhood friends commemorated her life by wearing orange. They chose the color because hunters wear orange in the woods to protect themselves from others. And so this day which would have been her birthday is the day that we wear orange. Every day more than 90 americans are killed you to gun violence. Thats why again, so many of us are wearing orange to Mark National gun violence awareness day. I thought it would be important for us to come together today because yesterday President Trump announced his decision to pull out of the paris climate agreement. It was a stunning abdication of American Leadership walking away from the agreement is extremely dangerous. This was my flagship issue. We all wanted to pass healthc
2017 Arms Control Association annual meeting. Im daryl kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, and as most of you know we are an independent nonpartisan Membership Organization established in 19 said one and we are dedicated to reducing and eliminating the threats posed by the worlds most dangerous weapons which would of course be nuclear, chemical, biological weapons as well as certain conventional weapons that pose particular harm in risk to civilians. You can find more about the Arms Control Association, its history, its ongoing work and to get more information also about these issues through website, armscontrol. Org and you can follow us on twitter at arms control now. The latest issue of our journal arms control today just went online so you can check that out there. You can also check out our resources on our arms control out which is simply arms control on all of the app stores. We are very pleased to see so many of you here today, members, friends, colleag
So thank you all for sticking around for our panel and im sure it comes as no surprise that we would be discussing north korea today given the increased tensions on the Korean Peninsula and the north korean policy review. That President Trump has just completed. sover north korea watchers, when he 17 has been an interesting year. The President Trump decided to review policy for north korea shortly after his inauguration and he came back with a policy that emphasizes maximum pressure and engagement but there has been signals on what exactly the United States let me looking for from north korea before entering into negotiations. South korea also has a new president. He has expressed an interest in talking to the North Koreans but again, under what conditions still remains somewhat an openended question and of course in north korea weve seen a number of Ballistic Missile tests already in 2017 including some new systems. And all of this is leading up to the summit that trump and moon j in
Mass destruction. He spoke to the Arms Control Association about the Trump Administration strategy for north korea, relations with russia and the iran nuclear agreement. Welcome back everyone. Welcome back then please find your seats so we can resume here at the Arms Control Association net annual meeting with our first keynote speaker of the day. Thank you. Once again, im darrell kimball, director of the Arms Control Association. My friends are here for our 2017 Arms Control Association annual meeting. Please to have with us today Christopher Ford whose special assistant to the president and senior director for weapons of mass instruction and counter proliferation policy at the National Security council. Chris who has extensive experience on these issues has been on the professional staff of the Senate Relations committee, banking committee, easter on the personal staff of a senator Susan Collins as her National Security advisor and before that he served at the state department as a s
2017 Arms Control Association annual meeting. Im the executive director of the Arms Control Association and as most of you know were an independent nonpartisan Membership Organization established in 1971 and dedicated to reducing and eliminating the threats post by the worlds most dangerous weapons which could, of course, be nuclear, biological as well as conventional weapon that is that pose particular waharm and risk to civilians. You can find out more about the Arms Control Association, its history, ongoing work and to get more information about these issues through our website, armscontrol. Org and you can follow us on twitter on arms control now. The latest issue of our arms control today just went online, so you can check that out there and you can check out resources on our arms control app which is simply arms control on all of the app stores. We are very pleased to see so many of you here today, members, friends, colleagues from the Diplomatic Community and we welcome you thos