On April 30, Korea Institute for Maritime Strategy (KIMS) had a meeting with Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), a German think tank, in Busan. On the KIMS side, VADM (ret.) Tae-ho Won, the president, Dr. Sam-man Chung, director of KIMS, and Mr. Jae Hyeok Lee, associate researcher, participated the meeting; and on the KAS side, six delegates from Germany, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Australia joined the talk, represented by Mr. Thomas Yoshimura, resident representative of KAS Seoul Office. The two parties discussed various topics, including South Korea’s Indo-Pacific strategy and maritime security, US Indo-Pacific strategy and ROK-US shipbuilding cooperation, China’s gray zone tactics, and comparison of US relations with Europe and Asia. The meeting concluded with the dinner celebrating the first meeting of KIMS and KAS, and they agreed to continue further cooperative relationship.
