While there has been relative peace and dynamic economic development and integration in Northeast Asia during the past several decades, the region presently faces serious challenges, such as increasing nuclear tension on the Korean peninsula and deteriorating relations between some countries in the region along with an unprecedented global COVID-19 crisis. Is peaceful development of the Northeast Asia region sustainable under these circumstances? What key factors are necessary to promote regional collaboration toward positive, sustainable peace and development?
The vision of a free and unified Korea will not only be a key to solving the nuclear crisis of the peninsula, but it can also be a catalyst for sustainable Northeast Asia regional peace and development. And though a relatively small country in terms of its population, economy and military power, Mongolia is a nation that has long-standing friendly relations with all other countries in the region including both North and South Korea, has successfully and peacefully transitioned to a free democratic state, and has led the UN in creating a ground-breaking nuclear-weapon-free policy which it has modeled with ongoing leadership from Blue Banner. Mongolia can play a key role for ongoing convenings among stakeholders including “six-party talk plus” nations and the broader international community toward positive resolutions for the Korean peninsula and regional challenges.
For this reason, the forum conveners and partners have committed to this annual Mongolia Forum (previously called Ulaanbaatar International Roundtable since 2018) to develop comprehensive strategies for total denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, a free and unified Korea, and sustainable peace and development of Northeast Asia. Though virtual due to COVID restrictions, this 2021 forum will again convene prominent experts, policymakers, journalists, and civil society leaders from the region and the global community to examine the current geopolitical environment, identify new opportunities, and develop sector-specific and comprehensive solutions.
Conveners
Blue Banner
Global Peace Foundation
One Korea Foundation
Action for Korea United
Mongolian Forum for Korean Unification
Partners
Institute of Northeast Asian Security and Strategy
AKU Professors Association
Alliance for Korea United USA
The Asia Institute
International Institute for Peace Through Tourism
Schedule at a Glance
October 26, Tuesday (Mongolia Time)
October 25, Monday (US Eastern Time)
8:00 AM (Mongolia)/PM (US Eastern) Session I: Opening Session
Moderator: H.E. Jargalsaikhan Enkhsaikhan, Chairman, Blue Banner; Former Mongolian Ambassador to UN
Opening Remarks: Mr. James Flynn, International President, Global Peace Foundation
Opening Remarks: Dr. Jai-poong Ryu, Founder and President, One Korea Foundation
Opening Remarks: Mr. Inteck Seo, Co-Chair, Action for Korea United
Welcome Remarks: Mr. Odbayar Erdenetsogt, Foreign Policy Advisor of President of Mongolia
H.E. Ochirbat Punsalmaagiin, Former President of Mongolia
Hon. Tsogtbaatar Damdiny, Member, Parliament of Mongolia; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Gregory May, Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy to Mongolia
Congressman GK Butterfield, Member, US House of Representative; Senior Chief Deputy Whip of the House Democratic Caucus
Dr. Joo-sung Kim, Former President, Korea National University of Education
Dr. Hyun-ik Hong, Chancellor, Korea National Diplomatic Academy
Dr. Mabel Lu Miao, Co-Founder and Secretary General, Center for China and Globalization
Dr. Nobuo Tanaka, Former Executive Director of International Energy Agency
9:20 AM (Mongolia)/PM (US Eastern) Break
9:35 AM (Mongolia)/PM (US Eastern) Session II: The Post-COVID World: Challenges, Opportunities, and Strategies for Northeast Asian Peaceful Development
Moderator: Yeqing Li, Senior Fellow for Northeast Asia Peace and Development, Global Peace Foundation
Mr. Enkhbayar Namjildorjb, Head of Economic Research Unit, Institute of Strategic Studies in Mongolia; Former Senior Advisor of Prime Minister of Mongolia
Mr. Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan
Hon. Donald Manzullo, Former U.S. Congressman, Chairman of the House Small Business Committee, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
Dr. Kwang-kyu Nam, Professor, Korea University
Dr. Emanuel Pastreich, Founder and President, The Asia Institute
- Dr. Hao Su, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Diplomacy and Founding Director of Center for Strategic and Peace Studies, China Foreign Affairs University
Dr. Elena Boykova, Senior Researcher, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences
Ambassador Dr. Dino Patti Djalal, Founder & President, Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia; Former Indonesian Ambassador to USA and Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Dr. Jagannath Panda, Research Fellow and Co-ordinator of the East Asia Centre, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi, India
11:00 AM (Mongolia)/PM (US Eastern) Adjournment
October 27, Wednesday (Mongolia Time)
October 26, Tuesday (USA Eastern Time)
8:00 AM (Mongolia)/PM (US Eastern) Session III: Envisioning & Advancing a Free and Unified Korea
Moderator: Dr. Jai-poong Ryu, Founder and President, One Korea Foundation
Dr. Baasanjav Lkhagvaa, President, Mongolia Forum on Korea Unification
Dr. Jin Shin, President, Institute for Peace Affairs
Mr. Chong Wang, Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of Center for US Studies, Zhejiang International Studies University; Senior Fellow, Charhar Institute
Mr. Richard Lee, President, Alliance for Korea United USA
Colonel (Retired) David Maxwell, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense Democracies (FDD)
Dr Markandey Rai, Senior Advisor, UN-HABITAT
Dr. Vladimir Ivanov, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Stimson Center
Dr. Sachio Nakato, Professor, Ritsumeikan University
9:20 AM (Mongolia)PM (US Eastern) Break
9:35 AM (Mongolia)/PM (US Eastern) Session IV: Northeast Asia Nuclear Weapon Free Zone (NEA-NWFZ) and Stakeholders’ Roles for North Korea’s Denuclearization: Implications to a Unified Korea
Moderator: David Caprara, Strategic Advisor, Global Peace Foundation
Ambassador Jargalsaikhan Enkhsaikhan, Chairman, Blue Banner; Former Mongolian Ambassador to UN
Dr. John Endicott, Honorary President, Woosong University; Limited Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Architect and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
Dr. Kyung-young Chung, Adjunct Professor at Graduate School of International Studies, Hanyang University; Policy Advisor for National Security Office, Blue House
Colonel (Retired) Charles T. "Chip" Sniffin, Former Policy Maker, US Department of Defense, President and CEO, Bright Spot Tours
Dr. Yoshinori Kaseda, Professor, College of Asia Pacific Studies at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
Dr. Vladimir Sotnikov, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Senior Lecturer, People’s Friendship University of Russia
- 11:00 AM (Mongolia)/PM (US Eastern) Adjournment
October 28 Thursday (Mongolia Time)
October 27, Wednesday (US Eastern Time)
8:00 AM (Mongolia)/PM (US Eastern) Session V: Lessons Learned from the Greater Tumen Initiative: Northeast Asia Economic Integration Toward a Free and Unified Korea
Moderator: John Hancock Dickson, Senior Advisor on Economy and Government Relations, Global Peace Foundation
Mr. Nanjin Dorjsuren, Founding Director, Mongolian Institute of Northeast Asian Security and Strategy
Dr. Qsyng Chun, Chairman, Network for the Future Economic Education
Dr. Leonid Petrov, Senior Lecturer, International College of Management in Sydney (ICMS); Visiting Fellow at the College of Asia and the Pacific, the Australian National University
Mr. Hyun-seung Lee, Fellow on North Korea Studies, Global Peace Foundation
Mr. Zolboo Dashnyam, Director of Institute of International Affairs, Mongolian Academy of Sciences
Mr. Craig Steffensen, Former Director, North American Representative Office, Asia Development Bank (ret.)
Dr. Yuhua An, Professor, Graduate School of China, Sungkyunkwan University
Dr. Soon-jik Hong, Senior Research Fellow at the Future Korea Institute, Kookmin University
- 9:20 AM (Mongolia)/PM (US Eastern) Break
9:35 AM (Mongolia)/PM (US Eastern) Session VI: Youth Leadership in Northeast Asian Peaceful Development
Moderator: Mr. Otgonbaatar D., Assistant Research Fellow, Graduate School of Mongolia
Ms. Nomunsor Soronzonbold, Assistant Director, My Club Mongolia
Mr. Paul Kyu-min Lee, President, Divided Families USA; Program Specialist for Youth Programs, US Institute of Peace
Mr. Daehyun Park, CEO, Woorion, NK Escapee
Byeongju Lee, School of Social Welfare (Diplomacy for Korean Unification & Development Cooperation), Soongsil University
Mr. Nicholas Lee, Secretary General, Global Peace and Development Service Alliance
Mr. Zhanjie Zhao, Senior Manager of the Global Young Leaders Dialogue Program, Center for China and Globalization
Dr. Danning Wang, Research Fellow, Charhar Institute
Mr. Leonard Faustino, President, Global Peace Youth Philippines
- 11:00 AM (Mongolia)/PM (US Eastern) Closing and Press Release on the Forum Outcomes