Secretary for affairs. This is 45 minutes. Defense cooperation from the United States japan and south korea. Our speaker this morning is randall shcriver. He is the assistant secretary of defense for indo pacific since early security affairs. He previously served in various u. S. Administrations as the Deputy Assistant secretary of state for east asia and Pacific Affairs and prior to his civilian service he was an activeduty Naval Intelligence officer including a deployment in support of Operation Desert Storm and desert shield. He has won numerous military and civilian awards. He is an old friend and one of the best minds that we have today in washington, d. C. And in the country, on indo Pacific Affairs. Without further ado, let me introduce assistant secretary shriver. [applause] thank you, victor. And thank you, csis. It is always good to return here and be here, but particularly, when speaking of these subjects, because csis has done so much quality work on the Alliance Relationsh
Today we are discussing the japansouth korea trade dispute. Its obviously a a very sensit, a very difficult issue between two countries that are critically important to the United States as allies, as Economic Partners, as fellow democracies, and as friends. You will notice the title of event includes ramifications and the path forward. I emphasize forward because the current dispute is due in part to events that have taken place months or years or decades or centuries ago. But rather than dwelling on those issues, we want to identify away from for both cos and in the three countries including the United States to move forward. Now, the current dispute is part of a a cyclical pattern that ss to research every few years, and each time it felt to those officials and experts working that each time was the worst. But i think all of us now have seen that this time is very different. In the past the economic and the security realms seemed exempt and, indeed, they were moderating or mitigatin
They have a lane in the road but the curbs are pretty short. And they cover issues as they see fit. Matt goodman is Senior Advisor for asia and economics, and the us Governments National security staff, director for International Economics, white house coordinator for apack, Senior Advisor to the undersecretary for Economic Energy and Agricultural Affairs and department of state. The list goes on as well as private sector worked at goldman sachs, the Government Affairs office in london and jim show is with the carnegie education program. Previously served in the pentagon the office as Senior Advisor for east asia policy, the office of the secretary of defense and there he was responsible for Strategic Planning and policy Development Relations for japan. And spearheaded Regional Security cooperation issues, north korea, Missile Defense, Disaster Relief and Maritime Security and lived in japan and other parts of asia for a number of years. Past cronin holds the asia pacific security chai
In the past u. S. Experts and officials have always had really private sometimes stern messages for both sides to take auction to move forward and we will see how are panelists come down on that issue today. And we really have a group of stiller panelists and i will introduce them later but first we have for what many of you will be a surprise guest, we only heard formal confirmation late yesterday that mike will begin the opening remarks, mr. Napper, his appearance may not be on the website yet and people may not have been aware of it, but mr. Knapper, member of senior Foreign Department of state and hes serving as the Deputy Assistant secretary for korea and japan and i first met mark when he was the head of the political military unit in the embassy in tokyo, well, probably more years than either one of us would want to admit and since then hes had any number of jobs, any number of business cards i think i have in my collection, its not to say he cant keep a job, expertise on so man
Good morning. The rok u. S. Strategic forum will begin shortly. Please start taking your seats. We would like to welcome all of you to csis, but before we begin todays events i need to make a few brief security announcements. We feel very safe and secure in our building here at csis. In the very unlikely occasion of an emergency, we ask that you remain calm and follow any instructions and alarms that are made. Please also take a moment to look at the safety card on your tables and locate the nearest exit. Csis is very proud to cohost this Fourth Annual rok u. S. Strategic forum with the Korea Foundation. Thank you ambassador lee and welcome to our distinguished delegation from the Korea Foundation. On behalf of csis and the korea chair, i would also like to extend a very warm welcome and thank you to our sponsors, our silver level sponsor, the American Chamber of commerce in korea, our gold level sponsor, the Korean Chamber of commerce and industry and our special sponsor corestone. To