<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">MIT<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">Program in Science, Technology, and Society <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 24px;">Seminar on Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 24px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 24px;">By Dr. Leon Sigal <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: white; "><span style="font-size: 24px;">Social Science Research Council, New York</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">The United States is blinkered
by preconceived notions about dealing with North Korea, many of them doubtful.
In his lecture Dr. Sigal will </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">discuss his belief that negotiating with the North is the only
realistic means of resolving the nuclear issue. The starting point for that
effort is the September 19, 2005 joint statement, an agreement concluded in
six-party talks for North Korea to abandon its nuclear program. However, he
cautions that North’s “strategic patience” may not last for long.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">_________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Dr. Leon V. Sigal is the
Director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project at the Social
Science Research Council in New York. He is a leading specialist on the
challenges posed by the presence of nuclear weapons in North Korea. He has
written extensively on nuclear arms control and on the Korean question. His
book</span>, <u>Disarming Strangers: Nuclear
Diplomacy with North Korea</u>, was widely acclaimed. He was a Professor of
Government at Wesleyan University for many years and also taught at Columbia
and Princeton Universities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><o:p style="font-size: 12px;"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><o:p style="font-size: 12px;"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 24px;">Thursday</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 24px;">24 October 2013<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 24px;">E51-275<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 24px;">4 PM</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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