University Communications
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

Release date: Nov. 1, 1999
Contact: Elaine Justice, Assistant Director, 404-727-0643, or ejustic@emory.edu

Jimmy Carter, James Laney, Korean Ambassador Lee To Discuss "North Korea and Security on the Korean Peninsula"

The Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning will kick off its third year Nov. 11 with a panel discussion on "North Korea and Security on the Korean Peninsula," featuring former U.S. President Jimmy Carter; James T. Laney, Emory president emeritus and former ambassador to the Republic of Korea; and Lee Hong-koo, ambassador to the United States from the Republic of Korea and Emory alumnus.

The discussion will be moderated by Eason Jordan, president of global newsgathering and international networks for CNN News Group. The event is scheduled from 2-3:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Administration Building at 1440 Clifton Rd. Admission is free. For more information, call 404-727- 7504. To see a map of campus, go on-line to www.emory.edu/MAP.

Carter, Laney and Lee are internationally respected experts will discuss the prospects for peace and security in view of North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, its periodic threats to undertake new missile tests, and its serious economic situation. All bring enormous knowledge and insight to the discussion. Carter went to North Korea in 1994 because of a sharp rise in international tensions generated by that country's nuclear activities; he is credited by many as having prevented a second Korean war. Laney, a scholar of Korea as well as a policy maker, served as ambassador to Seoul from 1993-97, one of the periods of greatest strain since the end of open hostilities in 1953. He continues to advise the U.S. government on Korean matters.

Lee, a graduate of Emory and Oxford College of Emory, is former South Korean prime minister, and is uniquely qualified to share his government's "Sunshine" policy of rapprochement with Pyongyang and the reaction of Seoul to recent U.S. proposals presented to North Korea by former Secretary of Defense William Perry.

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