Yonhap’s Korea Peninsula Symposium to Explore New Administration's Strategy Amid Turbulent Global Order

▲ This image shows a poster for the Korean Peninsula Symposium 2025, a forum to be hosted by Yonhap News Agency, South Korea's key newswire, at Hotel Shilla in central Seoul on June 26, 2025. (Yonhap)

SEOUL, June 20 (Yonhap) -- Global experts will exchange latest insights in Seoul next week to explore strategies for navigating the shifting tides of the international order, particularly as the new administration takes office amidst escalating U.S.-China strategic rivalry and the uncertainty of U.S.-led tariff wars. 

Yonhap News Agency, South Korea’s national news service, will co-host the 2025 "Korean Peninsula Symposium" with the Ministry of Unification, the Institute for National Security Strategy (INSS), and Yonhap’s Northeast Asia Center. 

This annual event will take place on June 26 at The Shilla Seoul hotel in Jung-gu, Seoul, under the theme, "A shifting global order in Trump’s second term: What should the new government’s strategy be?"

Cho Jung-sik, Chair of the Democratic Party’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, National Security, and Unification, will deliver the keynote speech. U.S. Senator Andy Kim and Congresswoman Young Kim will share video messages.

The symposium will feature two main sessions. 

Session 1, theming "A surge in U.S. neo-isolationism and the seismic shifts in trade, diplomacy, and security," will be moderated by Han Seok-hee, President of the INSS, this session will take the form of a roundtable discussion. 

Speakers include Jack Cooper, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Hideshi Tokuchi, president of the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS) Japan, and Kim Hyun-wook, director of the Sejong Institute.

Session 2, will delve into "Turning challenges into opportunities: Policy proposals for navigating the storm." The session will be moderated by Yoon Young-kwan, chairman of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, and feature policy proposals aimed at the Lee Jae-myung administration. 

Participants of this session include Ahn Ho-young, distinguished professor at Kyungnam University and former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to the U.S., Lim Sung-nam, Advisor at law firm Bae, Kim & Lee and former First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to ASEAN, and Yoo Myung-hee, visiting professor at Seoul National University’s Graduate School of International Studies and former Minister for Trade, and Lee Si-woo, president of the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP)

The Korea Peninsula Symposium, co-hosted annually by Yonhap and the Ministry of Unification since 2015, serves as a forum for domestic and international experts, policymakers, and government officials to assess the security landscape on the Korean Peninsula and propose strategic solutions.

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