Hutton Honors College

Pizza Discussion Supper: "North Korea and the Nuclear Threat."

This is a small-group program and requires participants to sign up in advance. Participants must be IU undergraduates and must sign up using the established procedures. For complete sign-up procedures, see http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eiubhonor/hdextra/signup.php.

When President George W. Bush in 2002 named Iraq, Iran, and North Korea as the "axis of evil," a North Korean foreign ministry spokesman is reported to have described the address as "little short of a declaration of war." As the nation among those three with the most advanced capacity to develop nuclear weapons, North Korea may be the one with the greatest capacity to do harm to the United States and its allies. The United States has set as its goal the total dismantling of North Korea's nuclear program. What will it take to achieve that goal? What lessons have North Korea and the United States learned from the Iraq War that are relevant to U.S.-North Korean relations? What interests and roles do South Korea, Japan, China, and other nations in the region have in influencing the two countries? What impact does growing anti-Americanism in South Korea have in the mix? What role will economics play?

Participating in the discussion and debate of these and other questions will be Scott O'Bryan, a Japanese studies specialist, and Michael Robinson, a Korean studies specialist, both from the Departments of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures; and Jacques Fuqua, associate director of the IU East Asian Studies Center.