Join us for this roundtable and podcast recording on North Korea-China Relations after The Singapore Summit, with Dr. Seong-Hyon Lee, senior fellow at the George H. W. Bush Foundation and a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. In conversation with policy director Jonathan Corrado, Dr. Lee’s talk explores the evolving relationship between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, with a special focus on the time period between the U.S.-DPRK Summits in Singapore (June 2018) and Hanoi (February 2019). Dr. Lee scrutinizes documentary footage of the summits, reviews official Chinese and North Korean documents, and utilizes interviews with people in the know to reveal how Xi gradually increased his influence over Kim through their five summit meetings between March 2018 and June 2019. The talk concludes with some policy implications for the North Korean nuclear issue under the current Biden-Xi administrations.

North Korea-China Relations after The Singapore Summit
Tuesday, September 6, 2022 | 11 AM (EDT)

The Korea Society
350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10017

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:



Dr. Seong-hyon Lee is a senior fellow at the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations and a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. He is the former director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the Sejong Institute in South Korea. He is a graduate from Grinnell College, Harvard University, and Tsinghua University (Ph.D.). He was 2013-14 Pantech Fellow at Stanford University (APARC), Salzburg Global Fellow, and James A. Kelly Korean Studies Fellow (non-resident) of Pacific Forum CSIS. He specializes in China-DPRK Relations, China-South Korea Relations, and U.S.-China Relations. He is the author of the book, “The U.S.-China competition: Who will rule the world?" Books Garden (2019). In 2020, he gave the JTBC television's Distinguished Lecture (JTBC 차이나는클라스) on U.S.-China relations. He gave lectures and talks at the Council on Foreign Relations (a closed-door session), Harvard Kennedy School, Stanford University, RAND Corporation, University of Pennsylvania, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Hudson Institute, and the National Assembly, among others. He has briefed South Korean presidential candidates and advised business entities such as Samsung.