“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
― John Donne, No man is an island – A selection from the prose
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Helsinki Commission Briefing - Washington, DC December 2017
"In 2016, Congress passed the Global Magnitsky Act, which seeks to prohibit the worst foreign human rights offenders and most corrupt officials operating anywhere in the world from entering into the United States and to block their U.S. assets. This law requires that each year on December 10 (Human Rights Day), or the first day Congress is in session thereafter, the President submit a report to Congress that includes a list of each foreign person sanctioned under the law during the preceding year." Read more ...
ROK-U.S. Foreign Policy and Security Cooperation
Center for a New American Security - Washington, DC December 2017
On behalf of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and the National Unification Advisory Council (NUAC), you are cordially invited to attend an event on “Toward a Common North Korea Strategy: ROK-US Foreign Policy and Security Cooperation.”
At an official state visit to Seoul in early November, Presidents Trump and Moon advanced a common agenda on North Korea and bilateral relations. How will the two governments’ policies develop in 2018 and beyond? This timely discussion will examine U.S. and Korean perspectives on both countries’ North Korea policy and the future of the U.S.-ROK alliance. Read more ...