Korea Studies Luncheon with Keith Luse

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Korea Studies Luncheon Series

The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
and North Korea:
Perspectives from a Former Staff Member

The Korea Studies Program at SAIS invites SAIS students, faculty and staff to a luncheon with Mr. Keith Luse.  Mr. Luse will discuss how the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee approaches relations with Asia, particularly when dealing with issues related to North Korea.

Keith Luse became Executive Director of the National Committee on North Korea in July 2014. Previously, Luse was the Senior East Asia Policy Advisor for Chairman and later Ranking Member Senator Ric
hard G. Lugar at the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. During fourteen years of working for Senator Lugar in Washington, Luse had numerous meetings and interactions with North Korean officials inside North Korea and in the United States. Luse’s trips to North Korea focused on issues such as nuclear security, food and nutritional assistance, North Korean human rights, and American POWs from the Korean War and North Korea-related legislation.  Luse’s reports to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee include “China’s Impact on Korean Peninsula Unification and Questions for the Senate” (2012); “Trafficking and Extortion of Burmese Migrants in Malaysia and Southern Thailand” (2009); and “North Korea and Its Nuclear Program – A Reality Check” (2008).

 

*This event is open to SAIS students, faculty and staff only.