Our special guest, the director of use korean institute, the assistant director and im sorry the ambassador could not join us tonight. My name is andrew injoo park, the president of the Sejong Society of washington d. C. Founded in 2006, it operates at a nonpartisan and all volunteer organization dedicated in informing, developing and connecting Young Professionals are interested and engaged in korean affairs. Our ultimate goal is to inspire the next generation regards of the political and career affiliations of korea and northeast asia special. Under the guidance of our Senior Advisor and with generous support and partnership with the use korean institute, the Sejong Society has been hosting numerous events such as workshops, book talks, panel discussions. Although the Sejong Society puts its members and efforts together successfully hosted those events in the past, tonight event is the one that i was looking forward to the most. And hoping and planning the longest, its not only becau
Hello, everybody. If you could please turn your cell phone off. It would be really appreciated. Good evening. I hope you enjoyed the food. I would like to thank all of you for coming here to tonights event on behalf of the facility of washington, d. C. , i would like to express my sincere gratitude to our special guest, the director of u. S. Korea and institute,ean assistant director and i am sorry [inaudible] added in 2006, the society operates as a nonpartisan and all volunteer organization dedicated in informing, developing and connecting Young Professionals who are interested in engaged in korean affairs. Our goal is to inspire the next generation regardless of the political affiliations of korea and northeast asia especially. Under the guidance of our Senior Advisor and with support and partnership with the us Korean Institute we have been hosting numerous events such as workshops and panel discussions. Although it puts its members efforts together tonights event is one i was look
Somewhere in afghanistan, pakistan and from there are plotting and planning to carry out attacks against the United States and others. Thats the definition used by this administration, and when they talk about affiliates, very looselyaligned groups that share some of the same goals of alqaeda but not all of them. Sometimes listen to what the alqaeda core says, sometimes dont and have their own agendas, usually local. They want to overthrow the local guy, replace him with their type of leadership, impose their vision of a very extremist sharia on unwilling muslims. So thats the definition thats useed by this administration. My definition of alqaeda is actually based primarily on their selfdefinition; that is, the way alqaeda itself defines itself. Corrected and also adjusted and with a little bit of skepticism by looking at whats going on in the real world. So how does alqaeda define itself . It defines itself as an organization and an ideology. An organization that is a Hierarchical Or