Event Date: October 8, 2019 - 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location: FSS4004, 120 University Private, Ottawa

Presented by CIPS

In the presentation, I will analyze the current state of North Korea/US relations in the context of historical patterns, unprecedented summit meetings, US policy and North Korean strategic goals and assess the impact of an unpredictable and norm-breaking US President, a young, enigmatic and ambitious North Korean leader and the unusual relationship they have developed. I will consider the difference between summit discussions and the diplomatic engagement or non-engagement, missile tests and critical comments occurring between high level meetings and review the state of policy coherence/incoherence of each side, the limited window for reaching an agreement, what such an agreement might look like and the situation if no agreement is reached.

James Trottier is a Fellow of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, a lawyer and a former career Canadian diplomat who directed the political/economic programs at the Canadian Embassies in South Korea, Thailand and the Philippines and also served at Canada’s Permanent Mission to the UN in New York. At Headquarters, he organized four Canada/EU Summits. He was accredited to North Korea and led four Canadian diplomatic delegations to North Korea in 2015 and 2016.