• Date: December 3rd, Tuesday, 2019 16:00-18:00
• Location: Room 303, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)

SNUAC’s Future Earth Program held the fourth round-table talk in the series under the topic, ‘Peace and Sustainable Future in the Korean Peninsula’ on December 4th. The event consisted of a presentation by  Sung-Eun Cho (Research Fellow, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs) and discussion by the participants.

Dr. Cho explained the background and meaning of North Korea’s agreement to SDGs with the UN. He discussed how North Korea appears to cooperate with the UN to deliver a message to the global society after suffering a crisis due to the sanctions, and how the UN in the meantime had suggested SDGs in order to pursue sustainable development in terms of food, human rights and social problems within North Korea. Major contents of the plan agreed upon by the UN and North Korea are in the order of strategic core issues, management, monitoring and evaluation, which appear to be focused on several SDGs that are necessary for North Korea.

The audience carried out a discussion based on the presentation, about ‘whether the problem of North Korea should be seen not as a problem of one country but as a problem to be tacked by Asia as a whole’, ‘what difference there is between ODA and a social developmental approach’, and ‘what could be asked of natural sciences in terms of sustainable development in North Korea’.

Photos by DooWon Chang (Academic Reporter)