Let me begin by introducing myself I
think I've become increasingly a stranger

here as I've not been around as
much the past few months as normal.

My name is Adam Stolberg and
I co-direct the Center for

International Strategy technology and
policy here at the salmon School of

International Affairs at Georgia Tech
system is the acronym system

is the policy research arm
of the nuns school with

a real focus on blending interdisciplinary
and specially science and

policy approaches to a whole host of
international security challenges.

Some of them are directly relevant to
the focus of our topic today which

really cuts across all of a number of our
programs which is energy which is Korea's

energy security from a regional
perspective the the system

has programs that look at a whole
host of functionally organized

programs to look at nuclear energy
hydrocarbon energy security in

different regions as well as different
regional approaches to security.

I also like to thank in addition to
you all are coming here this early in

the morning to create a foundation for
its longstanding and generous support for

our programs on Korea and East Asia and

today's workshop is really motivated
by a host of different factors.

First it really represents the latest
incarnation of this longstanding program

on Korea for about ten twelve years
now we've been conducting different

workshops or speakers series that have
looked at different strategic economic and

political dimensions that
affect the Korean Peninsula

two years ago we hosted a conference
that looked specifically at the energy

security dimension is and explicitly
the technology and policy issues.

That are at play on the peninsula
on intra Peninsula relations but

one of the things that came out of
that workshop was something that was

game glaringly obvious from that workshop
is that you really can't understand

the dynamics and the prospects for
cooperation or even conflict in the region

without putting it into a or I'm sorry
on the peninsula without putting it into

a broader regional context and so
looking at some of the technological and

policy issues that cut across the
peninsula without looking at the broader

trends and dynamics across energy
sectors throughout the region and

beyond seemed incomplete and so
the workshop today is an attempt to

sort of be a follow on to that effort
by putting the Korean peninsula or

energy security issues in that
broader regional context.

The second motivator for this workshop.

Has to do with the fact that East Asia is
really a hotbed for global energy activity

here you have spiraling demand across
different energy sectors increasing

energy import dependence the major players
in the region from Korea Japan and China.

You have the the role of
prominent role played by

national oil companies that is and

that is put a direct statist element to a
lot of the energy activity in the region.

The region itself has global
tentacles as it brings in

supplies from the Middle East from
Latin America from Africa and

it works with Europe and with the United
States interfaces with the United States

and its strategic and commercial set
of interests it raises a whole host of

issues then with respect to the regional
dynamics and some of the trends what is

some of the trends what are some of the
different approaches to energy security

that will affect the prospects for
Strategic Energy at.

And engagement.

A third motivator for
the conference today has to do with or

it relates to a more scholarly
focus I mean those students and

scholars here that look at international
security always hear about hard security

problems are increasingly we hear about
nontraditional security issues but

energy security is well let's be
frank when overlooked to mention

to international security and it's quite
ironic because we seem to think that

energy somehow is intrinsic to the
national security interests of all states.

Given that it is the elixir that
lets makes for the economy and

the defense communities.

It is really one of the most under study
areas and certainly in Political Science

and International Relations littered
by myths and misnomers that really has

a state systematic inquiry which it also
strange for different disciplines because

especially in political science which we
now write more in numbers than in letters.

There are a lot of numbers out there but

there are divides between
the policy analysis and

the technical communities the people
that work on these issues and

the scholars that really
divorce themselves in many ways

from a lot of the action the tangible
action in the policy world and

in the technical world in the ways
that they're thinking about issues so

one of the real motivators for this
conference is to one highlight not only

how robust and dynamic energy security
is in the region but also the puzzles

that it presents the puzzles pool in terms
of the different ways that countries in

the region in the same region
define conceive of energy security

the puzzles posed by the interactions
that cut across different energy sectors.

The puzzles in terms of the fact
that you have the region

dominated by large
consumers having mixed or

sometimes competitive relations with
big suppliers in other words that you

would think there may be off harmony of
interests there convergence of interests.

Yet we don't see as much action let's say
in the Russian Eurasian interface with

with East Asia that one may expect
otherwise so there's a host of puzzles in

this dynamic landscape that really warrant
much deeper analytical and sophisticated

understanding that can help then help us
understand what the technological promise

may be and certainly the policy
challenges and opportunities may pose

in the fourth major motivator is of
course given that we're in Atlanta and

not in D.C. is to stay on top
of the policy community and

if you all haven't been reading the
newspapers our president is not in country

today but rather is in Asia and he is
preparing for a big meeting of the G.

twenty where energy is going
to end efficiencies and

environmental issues are going to
feature prominently on that agenda and

if you've also been reading the newspapers
or listening to N.P.R. this morning.

You know that these
are controversial issues and

globalization cuts many different ways and
it does so in the energy sector and

one has to only just look at the streets
of Seoul today to appreciate

that there are many different views
on these issues and the stakes and

thinking about energy security
are very tangible and real.

So what follows today then is
an attempt to sort of wet your whistle.

If you so to speak.

So to speak about thinking about
the trends the different policy and

scholarly puzzles associated with
this very dynamic landscape and

so what will follow then are a number
of different presentations and

the first panel of drill is seen so.

It's aimed at sort of identifying
some of the macro level to micro

level trends that
are going on in the region.

We're going to hear about specifically
some of those trends in what we call

increasingly these days alternative
sectors such as nuclear in the green areas

or unconventional gas and

after setting this scene we're going
to then start to dig deeper and

look at the different conceptions and
approaches policies strategies and

behaviors of three of the prominent
players and he stages from Korea Japan and

China to see how they interpret and
understand what energy security means

international context then we're going
to over lunch we're going to sort of

make sure that we have a little discipline
to the discussion in the sense that we're

going to hear a distinct private
perspective private sector perspective or

market perspective the ultimate
corrective so to speak from our

keynote speaker and then the last panel
is going to address some of the strategic

challenges and opportunities in terms of
the prospects for our cooperation and

in conflict in the region in the interface
of the region with Russia and

Eurasia and
maybe possibly some of the lessons or

not lessons that may be provided
by the European experience.

So we're going to go from these general
trends and digging a little bit deeper and

then looking at some of
the strategic interaction issues but

before we get into the substance
of today's workshop.

I'd like to introduce is excellent.

C. John who is the consul general of
the Republic of Korea here in Atlanta and

bastard China is really no stranger to the
rough and tumble not only diplomacy but

of our Fair campus as he's been a very
a great benefactor and supporter

of all of our efforts here at Georgia Tech
and particularly the one school.

And System Bastion Chun is a graduate
of Seoul National University but

he's also had a very distinguished
diplomatic career serving his government

and places such as God
on Iran Malaysia and

he was also the ambassador of
Korea to the Czech Republic so

those of you who study
Europe can appreciate

our resources here in Atlanta go
beyond the obvious members of the U..

In addition ambassador Chinese
serves as a counselor to the foreign

ministry as well as where
real politics takes place so

metropolitan government and
the National Assembly.

So thank you Ambassador Chun for
all of your generous support and for

your work with the Korea foundation in
supporting all of our activities and

I know that you're the envy of
all of your colleagues because

what a great territory with
all this golf surrounding you.

So I know this is a plum position and
we're very pleased to be able to introduce

you to say if you won't coming
remarks before we keep things I

think you missed through food you
can be a nice introduction you

profess to as I said my
name you turn eighteen.

I'm considered you know down in
Atlanta of the Republic of Korea.

In fact under my jurisdiction.

We had to sit state in
the southeast to U.S.C. and

in six states we have two hundred
fifty thousand the Korean race and

here and best monthly in D.C.
where you're.

Community the around five billion

dollars So the Korean community is
growing very fast in this area also

the exchange economy exchange
between Southeast USA and

South Korea is fast growing and more and

more Koreans are coming and every very

tired two flights every day but the number

has been increased from seven to ten weeks

from of most of forced
forced to was disappear but

the number will again be increased to

fourteen flights from the four
from January next year.

So you can imagine how
fast growing between

between South Korea and
the southeast the USA.

And we have

our country has kind of very
close relationship with

Georgia as spies understand more
than five hundred students and

around thirty professors
are registered Institute.

You know so many Korea have

established some kind of special
relationship rituals attacker

kind of

center of related activities in Atlanta.

So I'm very happy.

To attend this meeting and to make

short short remarks for
Start right to come hold of you.

So.

And it is my great honor and pleasure
to welcome to all of you to space for

a conference focusing on
coleus in a regional context.

I'll first like to thank the center School
of the Georgia Institute of Technology

preparing and hosting this event has
raised the Korean foundation for

its generous support.

Remember that the last year's
event when the six party talks and

the Korea Center security
hosted also by the judge.

Lucy was a very successful and fruitful

security is one of the main challenges of
twenty first century the global community

faces in security has
many facets technical

regulatory environment economic and
political

it is also increasingly developing
into a foreign policy issue every

nation has each own particular energy
mix straight healthy and priorities.

Each individual's path to greater
area security must be shared.

Accordingly.

However there are security challenges
we face remarkably similar.

Therefore the answers to improving and
security come from a set of

principles such as diversification
of energy resources so

price and transportation use increasing
the efficiency of energy production and

consumption scaling up the new grand clean
energy technologies into reading and.

The markets and strengthening
regional cooperation and so on.

Our forces in all of these areas

will benefit from the exchange of
information and increased cooperation.

I hope today's conference.

Really inspired many more concrete
ideas for common activities.

I believe that you know that we have
a complete picture of the Koreas and

security in regional context.

The energy issue in North Korea also
needs to be discussed discussed

with the participation
of North Korean experts.

Therefore my government hopes
that the six party course will be

without further delay and in this
framework North Korea's nuclear issue.

Together with will be this energy security
will be discussed in the joint statement

of September nineteenth in two thousand
and five North Korean community for

pandering own nuclear weapons and
in existing nuclear programs.

The other product parties promise to
take steps to normalize relations

with North Korea and
move to promote economic cooperation in

the fields of energy trade and
investment these statements

were adopted by the six parties and
the provide a basic framework for

the Asian region of
the North Korean nuclear issue.

Under the present situation and
my government.

We will continue to use our
our every effort to reach

the six party talks as soon as possible.

In conclusion I hope sincerely that
this competence will be an open both for

cooperation and
discussion in the discussion

in the area of energy security
in Korea and East Asia.

You know regional context.

I believe that the Expos
assembled here today

we would be able to give excellent
the inside when these each use and

I look forward to all through
the experience and ideas.

We didn't mind.

I hope one of you enjoyed the one
depreciations DID have been prepared for

today and thank you thank you thank you

for this time I'd like to invite our three
percent Gers come to the table here.

The first panel as I mentioned
we're going to kick off today by

sort of setting the scene especially on
the alternative fuels perspective and

we're very fortunate to be able to
bring a diverse set of perspectives to

this effort.

Our first speaker is
sharing Collins is really

represents exactly what
Georgia Tech really

tries to do is looking at the interface
between technology and policy and

what better person to talk about
trends in the nuclear realm and

he stage than someone who's
actually operated a plant and

knows the inside as well as
increasingly the external dimension

to the sector is Collin served as
the general as he serves as a general

manager of accidental alliances
with the Southern Company.

So the nuclear development department.

She has had twenty eight years
experience in the sector

serving as a senior reactor operator.

She is a plant general manager
of plant Farley and Alabama.

She has also been very much involved in
benchmarking new technologies as the A.P.

one thousand in the plant Vogel efforts.

And has worked directly in
forging international alliances

with her company in East Asia
most civically with China and

can really bring us this sort of
technology to policy perspective

to thinking about the some of
the trends in the nuclear sector.

Our second speaker is Dr Jason Lee.

Professor Lee is currently associate
professor at Korea University and

he's in the I.R. department
before joining there he serves as

a professor in the i fans program
the Institute of Foreign Affairs and

national security at the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and is is an international

political economist with expertise in
energy diplomacy specifically in Korea but

make no mistake professedly is
not just a scholar scholar he has

got his feet wet in the practical
world serving as the advisor

to the presidential secretary it as
well as to Korea's National Assembly

as conducted a number of policy relevant
studies on Korea's energy security.

He's a very prominent commentator
on Korea's energy security and

its green growth and efficiency issues.

He has also received his degrees from a
small institute a liberal arts institution

in New Haven that needs no name
recognition down south here university

and our third speaker is Dr G.
children and this is a real pleasure for

me again because this is the second
time we've brought him to Atlanta and

he's indulged as yet

again Dr Hugh is a senior fellow at
the Korean energy Economic Institute and

he's the executive director of the Center
for Energy information and statistics and

he really needs no introduction
because if you have ever tried to.

Explore any dimension to
Korea's energy security.

His name is the first one that
comes up I should be so lucky as

I'm going through my ten year review
to have a fraction of your citations.

He really is an expert on Korea's broad
energy security as well as some of

the newer and unconventional dimensions so
we're really happy to have him here so

each of our speakers is going to
present for a short period and

then unfortunately I Miss Collins
has to leave abruptly but

several of her colleagues are here and
for the students in the audience.

Those are you don't know the nuclear
sector is full of opportunities and

her colleagues left some literature and
she's going to mention a few things and

leave her contact information for you to
follow up because this is a really as I

mentioned dynamic feel not only
in East Asia but also globally.

So with that let me turn it over
to Sheriff to get us going.