The Center for the National Interest has gathered a world-class panel of experts who will tackle the North Korea question head-on: Keynote Address: Bill Richardson, a long-time North Korea watcher who has negotiated directly with the regime on countless occasions to secures the release of Americans held there, will open the event with a fifteen-minutes keynote address, describing his own vision for a future North Korea policy. Richardson served as a U.S. Congressman (1982-1996), U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations (1997-1998), and Secretary of Energy under President Bill Clinton (1998-2000). Panelists: - Jessica J. Lee, a Senior Research Fellow in the East Asia Program at the Quincy Institute. She began her career in Washington as a staff member on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and has also led a national Korean American leadership organization. -LT. General Wallace Gregson (US Marines, Retired), Senior Director of the China and the Pacific Program at the Center for the National Interest, former Assistant Secretary of Defense, former head of U.S. Marines in the Pacific. -Daryl Press, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth University. He is the author of Calculating Credibility: How Leaders Assess Military Threats, a book on credibility and decision-making during military crises. Harry J. Kazianis, Senior Director of Korean Studies at the Center for the National Interest, will moderate the event.