2009 International Conference on Humanitarian and Development Assistance to DPRK - Current Humanitarian Situation and International Cooperation CONFERENCE PROGRAM 24th November (Tuesday) - Press Conference Room, Press Center 13:00~13:30 Registration (Audiences) 13:30~14:00 Opening Ceremony Opening Address - Myung Jin IN (Co-Standing President, Korean Sharing Movement) Welcoming Address - Jae Jean SUH (President, Korea Institute for National Unification) Congratulatory Address - Moon Soo KIM (Governor, Gyeonggi Province) - Brian McDONALD (Ambassador, EU Delegation of the EC to R.O.Korea) 14:00~17:00 Opening Session Humanitarian Situation of DPRK and Current Activities by Organizations Session Chair : Werner KAMPPETER (Representative, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung) 1. DPRK Food Situation - Tae-Jin KWON (Senior Research Fellow, Korea Rural Economic Institute) 2. DPRK Health and Medical Situation - Nagi SHAFIK (Former Project Manager, World Health Organization in DPRK) Case Case 1. European Union - Uwe WISSENBACH (Deputy Head of Mission, EU Delegation of the EC to R.O.Korea) Case 2. US NGO : American Friends Service Committee - Wuna REILLY (DPRK Country Rep, AFSC) Case 3. US University : University of Missouri - C.Jerry NELSON (Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri) Case 4. Korean Local Government: Geyonggi Province - Seung Shin LEE (Officer in Charge of South and North Relations, Gyeonggi-Do) Case 5. Korean NGO : Okedongmu Children in Korea - Yoon Ok HWANG (Secretary General, OKEDONGMU Children in Korea) Rev. Chang Bin PARK (Chief Operation Officer, World Vision Korea) Young Sik KANG (Secretary General, Korean Sharing Movement) 17:30~19:30 Welcoming Reception Welcoming Address : Werner KAMPPETER (Representative, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung) Congratulatory Address : Kyeong Seo PARK (Distinguished Professor, Ewha Womens University, Former Ambassador at large for Human Rights)
CONFERENCE PROGRAM 25th November (Wednesday) - Seminar Room, 2F, Somerset Palace Hotel 09:00~12:00 Session Evaluation of Humanitarian and Development Assistance to DPRK - Achievement, Problems and Future Tasks Session Chair: Kyeong Seo PARK (Distinguished Professor, Ewha Women s University) 12:00~12:10 Photo Session Theme 1. Evaluation of UN Activities - Hazel SMITH (Professor, Cranfield University) Theme 2. Evaluation of EUPS Activities - Uwe Wissenbach (Deputy Head of Mission, EU Delegation of the EC to R.O.Korea) Theme 3. Evaluation of Activities of US Actors - Karin J. LEE (Exectutive Director, National Committee on North Korea) Theme 4. Evaluation of Activities of ROK Actors - Jong Moo LEE (Director of Center for Peace and Sharing, KSM) Wuna REILLY (DPRK Country Rep, AFSC) Chang Ho PARK (Director, Korea Reconciliation Committee, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seoul) Han Bum CHO (Senior Research Fellow, Korea Institute for National Unification) 12:30~14:00 Luncheon Address : Yang Ho HONG (Vice-Minister of Unification) Breakfast Lounge, 2F 14:00~16:20 Session Development Aid Policy and Implications for DPRK: Bilateral Donor s Perspective Session Chair : Karin J. LEE (Executive Director, National Committee on North Korea) Theme 1. Current Realities and Perspectives of Italy - Massimo Andrea LEGGERI (Ambassador, Embassy of Italy to R.O.Korea) Theme 2. The Need for Coordination between donors and agencies in the DPRK - Hans HEINSBROEK (Ambassador, Embassy of the Netherlands) Theme 3. ROK Position regarding DPRK Development Aid and Future Outlook - HyeongJungPARK (Senior Research Fellow, Korea Institute for National Unification) Daniel Joseph Emery (Counsellor, Australian Embassy in Seoul) Lynn LEE (Program Officer, National Endowment for Democracy) Hyoung Soo ZANG (Professor, Hanyang University)
2009 International Conference on Humanitarian and Development Assistance to DPRK - Current Humanitarian Situation and International Cooperation CONFERENCE PROGRAM 25th November (Wednesday) - Seminar Room, 2F, Somerset Palace Hotel 16:20~16:40 Tea Break 16:40~18:40 Session Data Gathering and Analysis of Development Aid to DPRK Session Chair: Wan-Kyu CHOI (Vice President, University of North Korean Studies) 18:40~20:00 Dinner Breakfast Lounge, 2F Theme 1. Usability and Reliability of Statistics on DPRK - Suk LEE (Senior Research Fellow, Korea Development Institute) Theme 2. The Past, Present and Future of the Relationship between South and North Korea, basedon Statistics - Kang Taeg LIM (Senior Research Fellow, Korea Institute for National Unification) Nagi SHAFIK (Former Project Manager, World Health Organization in DPRK) Jerry NELSON (Professor, University of Missouri) Robert KANG (Executive Director, Korean American Sharing Movement) Yong Chan KWON (Secretary General, Korea Food for the Hungry International) CONFERENCE PROGRAM 26th November (Thurday) - Seminar Room, 2F, Somerset Palace Hotel 09:30~12:00 Session Exploring New Strategies for Humanitarian and Development Assistance to DPRK Session Chair : Sung Hoon KIM (Chairman of Citizens Movement for Environmental Justice, Former Minister of Agriculture) Conference Summary : Jong Moo LEE (Director of Center for Peace and Sharing, KSM) Discussion Edward REED (Representative, Asia Foundation Korea Office) Karin J. LEE (Executive Director, National Committee on North Korea) Hazel SMITH (Professor, Cranfield University) Il Ha LEE (President, Good Neighbors International) Yong Sun LEE (Co-President, Korean Sharing Movement) Conclusion Discussion 12:00~14:00 Luncheon JIRISAN
Opening Address Thank you for coming to the 2009 International Conference on Humanitarian and Development Assistance to DPRK. In particular, I would like to express my appreciation to Brian McDonald, Ambassador of EU, which granted us a generous contribution for this conference. Also to Governor Kim Moon soo of Gyeonggi province, Director Seo Jae jin of KINU, and Director Kampetter of Fredrich Ebert Stiftung, co-hosts of this conference. This conference will take place for 2 nights and 3 days. Today's session is open to the public, and will begin with sharing of information on the humanitarian situation of DPRK, and experience from past activities in the fields of agriculture and health and medicine. Today, Doctor Kwon Tae jin will give a presentation on DPRK food situation, and Doctor Nagi Shafik, who has stayed in DPRK as a UN official for 8 years from 2001, will share with us the current DPRK health and medical situation, which will help us to understand the recent situation of DPRK. There are three reasons behind our organizing of this conference. First, as you all know, there are many organizations that are involved in aid to DPRK, and we need to share the information and experience that we each have accumulated so far. In the international community, UN agencies such as the WFP and WHO, the US, Swiss, Italian governments as well as the EU, and international NGOs are currently providing aid to DPRK. Domestically, scores of civil organizations including KSM are conducting aid activities to DPRK with the ROK government. Also for the past few years, many local governments such as Gyeonggi province have enthusiastically joined in aid to DPRK, and they now play a large role in the field. Through this conference, we would like to sit down with the many organizations from inside and outside Korea, and discuss the problems we are currently facing, as well as how to cooperate to solve them. Second is to set the topics to deal with in future aid to DPRK, and find a frame of international cooperation in order to discuss these topics. In the beginning of this year when we first began organizing this conference, we looked forward to the Obama administration to seek early improvement in DPRK-US relations. Of course, there were several ups and downs during the past couple of months, but through DPRK-US dialogue and 6 party talks, the issue
appears to be on the way to improvement. If the DPRK nuclear issue and DPRK-US relations do evolve to a better situation, the current center of interest regarding aid to DPRK will shift from emergency humanitarian aid to development aid. Therefore, we would like to exchange opinions on what kind of topics must be considered with importance when development aid to DPRK becomes an issue in the international community through this conference. And we also want to check the methods of international cooperation through which we can facilitate such discussions effectively. The last reason for the organizing of this conference is that through this conference, we want to refresh the interest toward aid to DPRK within South Korea, and also change the current perspective toward aid to DPRK. In regard to humanitarian aid, former US President Ronald Reagan left a famous saying. In the early 80s, Ethiopia, a communist country at the time, was suffering from famine, and part of the US administration was against providing food aid. At the time, President Reagon said 'a hungry child does not know politics', and fully supported communist Ethiopia with food aid. DPRK is not a far away country like Ethiopia in the African continent. Although now we are seperated, someday we will be reunited and live with one another. The average male height of the generation that suffered the food crisis of the late 1990s is said to be 158cm. The average height of the same generation in South Korea is 173cm, 15cm different from the North. Once again, the food situation in DPRK this year is extremely severe. Children who are now supposed to be growing will once again face a serious situation. 'What could a starving child know?', and 'Are they the ones responsible for their own starvation?' The food situation in DPRK is so severe that the food shortage of 1.5 million tons this year will become 1.7million next year. In such circumstances, the South Korea government has offered to provide 10,000 tons, inevitably drawing criticism from DPRK as a 'stingy and petty conduct'. So far, the government has emphasized [principle] in negotiating with Pyongyang. This, in terms of food aid to DPRK, should be adopted by offering to support 100,000 or even 200,000 tons of food as long as there is a guarantee that it will be surely passed onto the socially marginalized people of the DPRK society. If the government chooses otherwise, to calculate and approach the food crisis of DPRK from a political position, it will have to bear the criticism that it deserves. We hope that the government will convert to a point of view based on humanitarian
principles when addressing food aid to DPRK. The following 3 days and 2 nights will not be long enough for us to settle all of these issues. But if we can find a clue for solution or if we can realize what we must do through this conference, I believe it can be considered a success. Finally, I hope that we come up with a good conclusion, and would like to once again thank the co-hosting organizations, sponsors, and all of you who have done so much for this conference to happen. Thank you. November 24, 2009 Myung Jin IN Co-Standing President, KSM