Building Multi-Party Capacity for a WMD-Free Korean Peninsula

A Multilateral Workshop
part of the Building Six-Party Capacity project

February 17, 2006
Halekulani Hotel
Honolulu , Hawaii

Government officials and foreign policy experts from six countries gathered for a one-day workshop in Honolulu, Hawaii, on February 17, 2006, to discuss options for reviving the stalled six-party process and for building institutional capacity for implementing a viable denuclearization agreement with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). As part of these discussions, policy makers and academics from the United States, China, Russia, Japan, South Korea, and Australia explored options to determine potential solutions to the three key issues that will be addressed by a negotiated denuclearization agreement: 1) security assurances; 2) nuclear dismantlement and verification; and 3) economic engagement with North Korea.

The workshop was organized by IFPA, with the help of the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) at Yonsei University and the Shanghai Institute of International Studies (SIIS). This was the second of three meetings to be held in 2005-07 with generous support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. A workshop report of the workshop will be available in late spring 2006.