Hawaii’s Consular Corps and East-West Center Organizes Briefing on North Korea
Consular Corps members with Dr. Richard Vuylsteke, East West Center President (6th from left), Marcus Noland, East West Center Senior Fellow (7th from left), Consul General Gina Jamoralin. Others in the photo are Hawaii State Representative Gene Ward (9th from left), Mr. Wallace Chow, Director of Taiwan Economic Office (3rd from left) and next to him is Mr. Jeffrey Lau, Honorary Consul of Belgium.
14 August 2017 EAST WEST CENTER, HONOLULU – Hawaii’s Consular Corps, in cooperation with the East West Center, organized a lecture on North Korea entitled: “Hard Targets: Sanctions, Inducements and the Case of North Korea”. Mr. Marcus Noland, East West Center Senior Fellow and Executive Vice-President and Director of Studies, Peterson Institute for International Economics based in Washington D.C. gave the luncheon briefing before members of Hawaii’s Consular Corps on August 08 at the John Burns Hall, Room 3012 of the East West Center in Honolulu.
As an economic expert, Mr. Noland discussed the effectiveness of sanctions against North Korea and how the international community’s actions affect the regime. The lecture is a preview of a new book by Noland and Stephen Haggard on North Korea of the same title which analyzes the role of economic incentives in the bargaining around DPRK’s nuclear program.
Consul General Jamoralin thanked Mr. Noland for his interesting and relevant lecture and Dr. Richard Vuylsteke, President of East-West Center for collaborating with the Consular Corps in making the event possible.
The lecture is one of the activities organized by the Consular Corps of Hawaii this year under the leadership of Philippine Consul General Gina Jamoralin as its current Dean.
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Consular Corps members attentively listen to the lecture.