- Topic : ROK Navy–US Navy Peacetime Operations: Concepts and Operations in Support of Non-Traditional Security Issues
- Date : 27-28 August 2009
- Venue : Marine Memorial Hotel, San Francisco
- Participants : 40 persons
- Conference Schedule
27 August 2009
18:30 Welcome reception and dinner
28 August 2009
09:00-09:30 Welcome and opening statements by Co-Hosts:
Opening Statements
ㆍ Ambassador Song Keun-Ho, President, KIMS
ㆍ RADM(ret). Michael McDevitt, Vice President, CNA
Congratulatory Speech
ㆍHis Excellency Koo Bon-Woo, ROK Consul-General
in San Francisco, U.S.A.
09:30-10:45 Panel One: Unique Opportunities for
Cooperation—Energy Security from Hormuz
to Northeast Asia and Humanitarian Assistance
– Peacetime Energy Security: What is the Threat
and is there a Naval Mission?
ㆍDr. Thomas Bowditch,
Leader CNA Strategic Initiatives Team, CNA
– SLOC Security in East Asia and the Role of the Navy:
Sources of Threats and Protective Measures for Far East SLOC’s
ㆍProfessor Lee Seo-Hang, Institute of Foreign Affairs and
National Security and consultant to KIMS
10:45-11:00 Tea and Coffee Break
11:00-12:15 Panel Two: Peacetime Operations:
Countering Piracy in the Gulf of Aden
– US Navy-ROK Navy cooperation in a peacetime
non-traditional mission
ㆍ Dr. Eric Thompson,
Leader CNA International Affairs Team, CNA
– Naval Role and Anti-Piracy Operations in the Gulf of Aden:
Korean Perspective
ㆍ Dr.& Captain Chung Sam-Man, ROK Naval War College
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Speaker: The Importance of RON-USN Cooperation
VADM Doug Crowder, USN
(Deputy CNO for Information, Plans and Strategy
N3/5 and formerly Commander of the US Seventh Fleet)
14:15-15:30 Panel Three: Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI)
– ROK preparation for PSI and the Way Ahead
ㆍ VADM (retired) Ahn Kee-Seok,
Former Commander in Chief, ROK Fleet
– US Navy’s Strategic Concepts and Operational direction
of the PSI
ㆍ RADM (retired) Michael McDevitt, CNA
15:30-15:45 Tea and Coffee Break
15:45-17:00 Panel Four: Prospects for North East Asian
Regional Naval Cooperation
– Dr. Lee Choon-Keun, Senior Research Fellow, KIMS
– RADM James P. Wisecup, USN, President,
US Naval War College
17:00-17:30 Concluding Commentary
ㆍAmbassador Song Keun-Ho, President, KIMS
ㆍ RADM Michael McDevitt, USN (retired), Vice President, CNA
