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Former Green Beret lieutenant colonel Gordon Cucullu has more than three decades of experience dealing with the tumultuous area of East Asia, including North and South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China and Southeast Asian nations. He has written a best-selling new book called Separated at Birth: How North Korea became the Evil Twin published this past September. He is recognized as one of the leading authorities on the complex issues that pose a danger to us all from North Korea and the international War on Terror.

Gordon has for the past three years been a frequent guest on Fox News Channel discussing the War on Terror and the ramifications for America and our allies. During the War with Iraq, Gordon was the primary on-camera commentator for WABC Television, Channel 7 in New York City. He is a regular with national and local talk radio show hosts including such well-known WABC hosts as Monica Crowley, Steve Malzberg, John Bachelor and Steve Alexander. Gordon is a favorite guest of Linda Chavez on her talk show on Liberty Broadcasting. He has been a regular commentator for Laurie Morrow in Vermont and Mike Rose in Atlanta.

Gordon has addressed many audiences, large and small, on issues related to Asia. His expertise ranges from contemporary problems to complex geopolitical issues, from Americans doing business in Asia to America's new role on a world-wide stage. He combines an excellent knowledge of the history, culture, politics, military, business protocols and social values of the region with a great sense of humor. Gordon refines the complexities of a distant culture into understandable points welcome to an educated general audience.

Gordon has led a Green Beret A Team in the jungle mud of Asia and has briefed the Secretary of Defense in the E-Ring of the Pentagon. He managed military assistance to war-torn Central American republics in a tumultuous period. Because of the quality of his work he was selected for the highly competitive George Marshall Exchange Program and served in the Department of State as political military advisor for the assistant secretary of East Asia Pacific Affairs, at the time Paul Wolfowitz. After leaving the Army he has been a vice president for General Electric Aerospace based in Seoul and as the executive director of the Korea Society, a non-profit organization in Manhattan, rescued that organization from oblivion.

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Session AB1: Session Name
February XX, Time The Continuing Crisis of North Korea
Abstract:
For decades North Korea has posed the most serious threat of destabilization in Northeast Asia. While the regional powers have moved toward greater economic interdependencies since the fall of the Soviet Union, North Korea has continued to upset the political balance by blustering threats, open manufacture of weapons of mass destruction, and grotesque human rights abuses.

Since the mid-1990s with the coincidental signing of the Agreed Framework and the death of the original dictator Kim Il Sung, the situation has only grown more tense. Kim's son and successor Kim Jong Il violated the principles of the Agreed Framework from the outset by continuing to pour scarce resources into a nuclear development program. Meanwhile, the US and supporting nations of Japan, South Korea, Russia, and China propped up the decaying Kim regime through massive infusion of assistance. Tragically, little or none reached the starving people of North Korea but were diverted to the military and to the black market.

Hence we are faced in the early part of this century with a country that exists of an economy of crime and deceit: counterfeiting, drug manufacture and trafficking, export of banned missiles and technology, and sale of weapons of mass destruction are virtually the only sources of income for the faltering regime. Thought of implosion brings with it fear of massive refugee flow with attendant health and management problems, and the always-present possibility of irrational attacks on neighbors.

Gordon Cucullu will discuss these and other factors that brand the Kim Jong Il regime one of the world's most egregious human rights violators and a legitimate charter member of the Axis of Evil. Gordon has addressed many of these topics in his recent book Separated at Birth: How North Korea became the Evil Twin. He will discuss these topics and how we might address them - preferably without overt military action - during his presentation.