Good afternoon. Welcome to everyone here as well as our audience online. For those online, welcome to the eighth see csis strategic fn korea. My name is victor cha, Senior Vice President for asia and korea chair at csis, and professor at georgetown. And it is indeed my distinct privilege to introduce our keynote speaker, senator chris van hollen. Senator van hollen was elected to the u. S. Senate representing the great state of maryland in november 2016. 2016. A previous he served in the house of representatives representing marylands eighth congressional district. He currently serves as chairman of the Senate Foreign relations subcommittee on east asia, the pacific and at a National Cybersecurity policy. Senator van hollen has been a tireless advocate of a strong u. S. Korea alliance initial on the korea caucus. In the senate ds cosponsored important legislation can didnt north korean human rights abuses and imposing sanctions and banking restrictions on north korea for its proliferat
[applause] ladies and gentlemen, now well move on to congratulate remarks by his excellency, doctor jin park, minister of Foreign Affairs republic of korea. Former minister park was fourtime National Lawmaker on Ruling People Party and became foreign minister in may last year. Thank you. Hello, good morning. I am a park jin, foreign minister of the republic of korea. I would like to thank president gheewhan kim of the korean foundation, dr. John hamre of the csis, and secretary tony blinken, and all the friends and supporters of the koreau. S. Alliance for inviting me to speak todays forum. Let me first congratulate both the Korea Foundation and the csis on cohosting the koreau. S. Strategic forum today. I wish to recognize all that the kf and the csis have been achieving over many years to promote koreau. S. Relations at our mutual understanding. I also wish to acknowledge the distinguished speakers and participants at this years forum. All of you have been critical to nurturing, sust
[applause] ladies and gentlemen, we will move on to remarks by the minister of Foreign Affairs republic of korea. Jim park was of the Ruling People Party and became foreign minister last year. Thank you. Hello, good morning. I am the foreign minister of the republic of korea. I would like to thank the president of the Korea Foundation, the csis, secretary antony blinken, and all of the friends and supporters of the u. S. Korea alliance for inviting me to speak at todays forum. Let me first congratulate the Korea Foundation and csis on cohosting this forum today. I wish to recognize all they have achieved over many years to promote u. S. Korea relations and our mutual understanding. I also wish to acknowledge the distinguished speakers on participant at this years forum. All of you have been critical to nurturing, sustaining, and advancing our alliance. I regret that i am unable to join you in person due to other commitments as the foreign minister. We are one week away from the 70th bi
Okay. Thank you, everyone. Good afternoon. Welcome to everyone here as well as our audience online. For those online, welcome to the eighth csis Strategic Forum on korea. Am my name is victor cha, Senior Vice President for asia and korea chair at csis, a professor at georgetown. And it is indeed my distinct privilege to introduce our keynote speaker, senator chris van hollen. Senator vann. Hollen was elected to the u. S. Senate representing the great state of maryland in november 2016. He previously served in the house of representatives representing marylands eighth congressional district. He truly serves as chairman of the Senate Foreign relations subcommittee on east asia, the pacific, and International Cybersecurity policy. Senator van hollen has been a tireless advocate of a strong u. S. Korea alliance initial on theni korea caucus. Innocent he is cosponsored important legislation condemning north korean human rights abuses and imposing sanctions and banking restrictions on north
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