Please join us for a special discussion on North Korea in 2023 with Mr. Sydney Seiler, the National Intelligence Officer for North Korea at the National Intelligence Council.Previously, he was the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) Senior Analyst and Senior Defense Intelligence Expert for North Korea, serving as the principal advisor and senior expert on Korean Peninsula security issues to the USFK Commander and the U.S. Defense Intelligence Enterprise. Mr. Seiler also served as the U.S. Special Envoy for Six Party Talks (2014-2015), where he coordinated U.S. diplomacy and policy on the DPRK, and led negotiations with North Korea. Prior to that, Mr. Seiler served as the director for Korea on the National Security Council (2011-2014). A member of the Senior National Intelligence Service, Mr. Seiler has over 40 years of experience focusing on Korean Peninsula affairs in a range of executive management, intelligence, and policy positions within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Analysis, CIA’s Directorate of Operations, CIA’s Open Source Center, and the National Security Agency.The Capital Cable is made possible by the generous support to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/

Tokyo unveiled a sweeping new National Security Strategy in December 2022, which casts China’s rising assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific as Japan’s “greatest strategic challenge.” The strategy also makes clear that Japanese policymakers are increasingly concerned about China’s potential to forcefully secure “reunification” with Taiwan. Amid Tokyo’s efforts to build a more muscular regional defense presence, how are Chinese scholars assessing what role Japan might play in a potential conflict in and around Taiwan?Please join the Interpret: China project, the CSIS Japan Chair, and a panel of leading experts for a discussion of likely trajectories for China-Japan relations, drawing on insights from newly translated Chinese primary source documents. The expert panel will feature Rumi Aoyama, director of Waseda Institute of Contemporary Chinese Studies and professor at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University, and Bonny Lin, senior fellow for Asian security and director of the CSIS China Power project. The event will be co-moderated by CSIS Freeman Chair Jude Blanchette and CSIS Senior Adviser and Japan Chair Christopher Johnstone.This event is made possible by support from the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. ———————————————A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTveFollow CSIS on:• Twitter: www.twitter.com/csis• Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSIS.org• Instagram: www.instagram.com/csis/