23
September 2025
Past Event
Thirty-Ninth International Security Conference: Challenges and Opportunities for the ROK-US Alliance

This event is in-person only.

 

 

Inquiries: [email protected].

Thirty-Ninth International Security Conference: Challenges and Opportunities for the ROK-US Alliance

Past Event
Hudson Institute
September 23, 2025
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US and ROK troops take part in a joint bridging drill near the Southern Han River in Yeoju, South Korea, on August 27, 2025. (Getty Images)
23
September 2025
Past Event

This event is in-person only.

 

 

Inquiries: [email protected].

Speakers:
HI
Dr. Hyun In-Taek

Former Minister of Unification, Republic of Korea

BK
General Byung-kwan Kim (Ret.)

Cochairman, Council on Korea-US Security Studies

BC
General Byung Hyuk Choi (Ret.)

Vice President, Council on Korea-US Security Studies

BC
Lt. Gen. Bernard Champoux (Ret.)

Founding Member, Board of Directors, Korean Defense Veterans Association (KDVA)

Dr. Sam Yeol Jang

Secretary General, Council on Korea-US Security Studies

MG
Markus Garlauskas

Director, Indo-Pacific Security Initiative, Atlantic Council

CM
Colonel Dave Maxell (Ret.)

Vice President, Center for Asia Pacific Security

PI
Prof. Park Ihn-hwi

Division of International Studies, Ewha Womans University

EP
Colonel Gittipong Paruchabutr (Ret.)

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

TK
Dr. Taewoo Kim

Head of Nuclear Security Studies, Korea Institute for Military Affairs

Dr. Huh Nam-Sung

Professor Emeritus, Korea National Defense University

JJ
Dr. Jay Jinseop Jang

Director, Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Riley Walters
Riley Walters

Senior Fellow

Moderator:
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James J. Przystup

Senior Fellow, Japan Chair

Join Hudson for a conference featuring expert discussions on the United States–South Korea alliance and Indo-Pacific security, hosted by Lieutenant General Bernie Champoux (Ret.) and General Kim Byung-Kwan (Ret.).

This conference, jointly presented by Hudson Institute, the Council on Korea-US Security Studies (COKUSS), and the Korean Defense Veterans Association (KDVA), will feature two panels. Panel I will analyze the changing security dynamics on the Korean Peninsula, including nuclear threats, and the modernization of the ROK-US alliance in a multipolar world. Panel II will give a historical review of the Korean War on its seventy-fifth anniversary and identify lessons security officials on the Korean Peninsula can learn from the Russia-Ukraine War.

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