University Communications
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

Release date: Nov. 8, 1999
Contact: Elaine Justice, Assistant Director, 404-727-0643, or ejustic@emory.edu

Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning welcomes Carter, Laney, Lee, and in January 2000, Gandhi

The Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning enters its third year this fall with an ambitious schedule of international visitors and special events. On Nov. 11, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter will share his perspective at a panel discussion titled "North Korea and Security on the Korean Peninsula." Joining President Carter will be former Ambassador to South Korea and Emory President Emeritus James T. Laney, and South Korean Ambassador to the United States and Emory alumnus Lee Hong-koo.

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 http://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 rapprochment 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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