 Well, good morning everybody and We are having a little bit of a late start. So This panel despite the fact that it does address one of the most complex Issues in the whole world is gonna last a little shorter. I had a long I prepared a long introduction but since I am Probably the neat the least knowledgeable person on the stage about the issue I'm going to forego the introduction that that I prepared. I'm just gonna start out by saying that my closest encounter with With the Korean issue was at a time when I served as president of the United Nations General Assembly in 2013 when One of the nuclear tests Was performed by the North Korea and and I was in office and I very well remember the early morning when this became news and when I had Very agile conversation since early morning with my American colleague with my South Korean colleague. Everybody asked me to To call for for a session of the General Assembly an emergency session and and I said of course I will do that But I need to talk to the ambassador of North Korea first So I invited to my office the ambassador of North Korea and I asked him sir There are deep concerns about what took place last night in North Korea and he asked me What happened? And I said well actually the whole world is talking about this and there seems to be You know a nuclear test that was performed and he said that is not true. Do not believe the propaganda of the West So I must admit that I was puzzled with this conversation But nonetheless we did proceed to hold a session of the General Assembly, but but that was my That was my closest call with with the issue that Has been dominating the agenda of international relations for decades and especially in the last year year and a half There were some turbulent developments from fire and fury and nuclear buttons to a bunch of smiles and handshakes and and and a very hopeful discourse according to many Observers in this particular case, but as I said I'm gonna stop there I'm not gonna speak more about about the about the issue here on the stage. We have some really really impressive group of people on my immediate left is Tuske and Elbagdorch former President of Mongolia and a dear friend of mine actually a classmate of mine from graduate school He is he was the leader of the peaceful democratic revolution in Mongolia in 1990s and Served as a member of Parliament chairman of the major Party in Mongolia as well as Prime Minister prior to becoming President having served two terms as presidents He's a commissioner right now for the International Commission against the death penalty and a patron of the world sustainable Development forum a proud graduate from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government Then we have one GC One of China's leading thinkers and most respected intellectuals He's the professor of the School of International Studies and president of the Institute of international and strategic studies at Peking University He was a global scholar at Princeton He's an honorary president of the Chinese Association for American Studies and For many years he served as a member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of China's Foreign Ministry He holds many other he held many other affiliations and is also a director of the Institute of International Strategic Studies at the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China Then we have Douglas Pal vice president for studies at Carnegie Endowment for international peace He Previously served as vice chairman of JP Morgan Chase and a national But he was an official US representative to Taiwan and as director of the American Institute in Taiwan 2006 sorry 2002 to 2006 He was in the National Council staffs of presidents Reagan and George HW Bush And he Also worked in US embassies in Singapore and Beijing Also a Harvard University graduate Then We have will be The order is slightly different. I was about to introduce a Russian but it's definitely not a Russian mr. Yim Sun Jun Senior advisor at Lee international IP and law group Previously he held in position of president of the Korea Foundation Served for many years in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea Amongst other posts he held the position of ambassador to Canada in Egypt Served also as deputy minister of foreign affairs graduated from Seoul National University Oxford University and KO University Jose Yuichi is the professor at the faculty of law at KO University in Japan Previously he was an assistant professor at Hokkaido University He was a visiting researcher at Princeton visiting professor at Seattle and Paris He's a former member of the advisory board at Japan's National Security Council He was part of the prime minister's advisory Panel on reconstruction of the legal basis as well as on national security and defense capabilities And last but not least is Georgie Toloraya one of Russia's foremost experts on Korean affairs he Served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs In of Russia, but he also served in Russia's embassies both in the north and in the south Korea he is Currently the director of Korean programs at the Institute of Economy at the Russian Academy of Science and Professor of Rental Studies at the MIGIMO executive director of the Russia's National Committee on BRICS research Without further ado, I'm going to give floor to President Albert d'Orge, and I'm gonna ask you a question because You did visit North Korea more than once and you were very active as president in inter-Korean Dialogue gave you gave a famous speech in Pyongyang about democracy It's a fascinating topic to be discussed there. So it was the president