CTR+ Workshop #3 CTR+ and Public Health

The Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN) with support from the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and sponsored by the Republic of Korea (ROK) Ministry of Unification is hosting three online workshops to review the potential for an effective Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Cooperative Threat Reduction plus (CTR+) initiative.
Senior experts along with ROK and US officials will review how to conceptualize and implement CTR+ in the context of a renewed diplomatic approach to the DPRK. These workshops will explore how implementing a CTR program in North Korea can successfully facilitate not only CTR-nuclear (defined narrowly as the shutdown of the DPRK’s nuclear weapons program, elimination of its related nuclear weapons facilities, redeployment of nuclear weapons capable personnel and removal of IRBM/ICBMs) but also parallel, linked, and concurrent engagement in other critical
sectors of the DPRK economy.
Workshop 3: CTR+ and Public Health
Monday 27 September, 7-9pm (EST) Washington DC
Tuesday 28 September, 8-10am (KST), Seoul
Moderator: Angela KANE, NTI
Opening remarks: LEE Jong-koo, SNUCM
Presentation:
• SHIN Young-jeon, Hanyang University School of Medicine Department of Preventive Medicine: “Northeast Asian Public Health Initiative Under the COVID-19 Pandemic”
• PARK Sang-min, Institue for Health and Unification Studies Seoul National University College of Medicine: “The Impact of COVID-19 on DPRK's Health System and Future Inter-Korean Biomedical Cluster Cooperation in the Post-pandemic Era”