A visit by the South Korean Delegation to USI on 07 December 2015

A visit by the South Korean Delegation to USI on 07 December 2015

A four member delegation headed by Prof SS Lee, Director General, Research Institute for National Security Affairs (RINSA), Korean National Defence University (KNDU), South Korea, visited USI on 07  December 2015. The other members of the team were Prof Kwon Y S, Prof Department of Weapon Systems, Dr Jeong Hanbeon, Director, Center for North East Asia, and Prof M H Park, Director Center for Military Strategy Studies. USI is doing a joint project with RINSA, KNDU on “Emerging Geo-Political Dynamics in the Indo-Pacific Region: Its Implications for Regional Peace and Security”. This was the second leg of the discussions held in New Delhi; previously a four member team from USI had visited South Korea in the month of October 2015. The visit commenced with the delegation having an informal discussion with Lt Gen PK Singh, PVSM, AVSM (Retd) Director USI.  

South Korean Delegation with  Lt Gen PK Singh, Director USI

South Korean Delegation with  Maj Gen Sharma Dy Director(Research)

The first session dealt with “Emerging Geo-Political Dynamics in Asia Pacific Region and its Implications for Regional Peace and Security”. Prof SS Lee spoke on “Emerging Geo-Political Trends: Imperative in the Asia-Pacific Region:  Implications for Regional Security and Maj Gen BK Sharma, AVSM, SM** (Retd) presented his views on “Geo-Political Trends in Indo-Pacific: Implications for regional Security.

Presentation by the Delegates

  The speakers for the second session were Dr Jeong Hanbeon and Cmde Lalit Kapur who spoke on “Towards Comprehensive Security Arrangements: Korean Perspective” and “Towards Comprehensive Security Arrangements: Indian Perspective” respectively.

            The third session had Prof Kwon Y S, who deliberated on “Nuclear Security Challenges and opportunities: Korean Perspective” and Dr Roshan Khanijo who gave an Indian Perspective on “Nuclear Security Challenges and opportunities”.

Memento Presented by the Director to Prof SS Lee, Director General(RINSA)

For the last session the speakers were Prof M H Park and Cdr MH Rajesh. They gave their perspectives on “Bilateral Relations between ROK-India” and “Bilateral Relations between India-ROK” respectively. After the session there were discussions on wide-ranging aspects of Indo-Pacific Region. The proceedings of this project would be published in the form of a book.

Compiled by Dr Roshan Khanijo, Senior Research Fellow and Research Coordinator, USI