History Panel - The Forging of an Alliance - 2025 Van Fleet Policy Forum

History Panel - The Forging of an Alliance - 2025 Van Fleet Policy Forum

Author: The Korea Society November 26, 2025 Duration: 47:37

Recorded November 14, 2025 - The Van Fleet Policy Forum is The Korea Society's flagship policy event. Through panel discussions, keynote remarks, and networking opportunities, the forum convenes senior thought leaders from the US and Korea for dynamic, informative, and analytical discussions on security, diplomacy, geoeconomics, and alliance history.

This year's conference was held in The Atlantic Council's office in Washington D.C. and produced in partnership with the Indo-Pacific Security Initiative in The Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. The 2025 Van Fleet Policy Forum was made possible by the generous support of The Kim Koo Foundation as well as The Korea Society's individual and corporate members.

History Panel - The Forging of an Alliance

Moderator: Jonathan Corrado, Korea Society Policy Director
Dr. Kathryn Weathersby, Adjunct Professor of Asian Studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
Dr. David Fields, Associate Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison

For more information, please visit the link below:
https://www.koreasociety.org/policy-and-corporate-programs/2060-us-korea-cooperation-across-domains-and-through-history


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