President Park Guen-hye has been proposing a ‘Trust-building Process’ as her key policy in inter-Korean relationships, meaning that her administration will stand firm against any North Korean provocations while keeping the door open for the North’s return to dialogue. Essentially, it is a two-track approach of pressurizing and inducing dialogue. So far, the North has responded to it in a negative way, and the Kaesong Industrial Complex is almost closing down with no immediate reversal of the situation in sight. After hearing from one of the key policy-makers of this policy in the Park administration, the session will discuss its vision and ways of implementing it.
• What is President Park’s policy of ‘Trust-building Process’?
• How different is it from the North Korea policies of previous administrations?
• How can the policy make North Korea respond in a positive way?
• How would the four major powers surrounding the Korean peninsula react to it?

- Moderator
KIM, Young Hie (Senior Reporter, JoongAng Ilbo)

- Presenter
Hong, Yong-Pyo (Secretary to the President for Unification)

- Discussants
KIM, Keun-sik (Professor of Political Science, Kyungnam University)
CHOI, Jin-Wook (Director of Planning & Coordination, KINU)
John DELURY (Assistant Professor, GSIS, Yonsei University)
PARK, Cheol-Hee (Professor, GSIS, Seoul National University)

- Rapporteur
SHIN, Hyeon Suk (Global Asia Fellow, East Asia Foundation)