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NEACD Plenary Conference

Plenary meeting room for the fourteenth session of the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue.
Col. Fedor Inyakov from the Russian Federation Ministry of Defense.
Prof. Chu Shulong and Ms. Haruka Matsumoto review notes during a break at the plenary session.
Mr. Pak Hyon Jae and Mr. Kim Hyak Chol.
MDr. Lee Seo-Hang and Dr. Robert Scalapino.
Dr. Park Jong-Sun.
The plenary session about to reconvene.
      

Defense Information Sharing Study Project
Vice Admiral of the PLA Navy North China Sea Fleet answering questions for DIS participants Officials from the PLA Navy Vice Admiral presenting Dr. Susan Shirk with a memento from the PLA Navy Headquarters. A briefing given to DIS participants onboard a PLAN destroyer. Briefing given to DIS participants at PLAN headquarters in Qingdao. Presentation given to DIS participants about the PLAN.
DIS participants look over a model of a PLAN destroyer. The hull of the Qingdao, a PLAN destroyer. A briefing is given to Col. Kim Ki-Ock, Col. Gary Shaw, and Dr. Susan Shirk at the front of the Qingdao. DIS participants talking with PLAN officers onboard the Qingdao destroyer.

Participants
Col. Gary Shaw and Col. Kim Ki-Ock Capt. Yang Xiaoqing, Col. Yoshinobu Sakurai, Col. Gary Shaw, Col. Kim Ki-Ock, and Maj. Hu Fan were among the military representatives at the Defense Information Sharing (DIS) study project. Prof. Hajime Izumi, from the University of Shisuoka, and Ms. Haruka Matsumoto, a researcher from the Japan Institute of International Affairs, were two Japanese academics who attended the NEACD in Qingdao. From left to right: Mr. Kim Il Sun, from the DPRK Institute for Disarmament and Peace (IDP), Mr. Kasuhiro Suzuki, Senior Policy Coordinator from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Col. Yoshinobu Sakurai from the Japan Defense Agency, Prof. Susan Shirk of IGCC, Ms.Haruka Matsumoto from the Japan Institute of Interternational Affairs, Mr.Pak Hyon Jae, Section Chief of the DPRK IDP, and Prof. Hajime Izumi from Japan's Shizuoka University. Col. Yoshinobu Sakurai from the Japan Defense Agency, and Prof. Lu Jianren of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Ambassador Donald Gregg, President and Chairman of the Korea Society, with Mr. Kim Il Sun from the DPRK Institute for Disarmament and Peace.
Col. Kim Ki-Ock from the ROK Ministry of Defense, Mr. Atsuo Suzuki from the Japan Defense Agency, and Prof. Susan Shirk. Col. Kim Ki-Ock, Maj. Hu Fan, Col. Yoshinobu Sakurai, Capt. Yang Xiaoqing, and Prof. Lu Jianren. Prof. Seki Tomoda from Japan's Asia University, Prof. Lee Seok-So, from the ROK National Defense University, Ms. Haruka Matsumoto from the Japan Insitute of International Affairs, Prof. Hajime Izumi,from Japan's Shizuoka University, and Col. Gary Shaw from the U.S. Pacific Command. Prof. Yakov Berger from the Institute for Far Eastern Studies in Moscow, Dr. Park Jong-sun, ROK Consul General to Shandong province, Mr. Kim Il Sun from the DPRK Institute for Disarmament and Peace, and Amb. Donald Gregg, Chairman of the Korea Society. Prof. Lee Seo-Hang from the ROK Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, Mr. Suh Hyung-Won, Director of the Foreign Policy Bureau of the ROK National Security Council, Mr. Ri Hak Chol from the DPRK Institute for Disarmament and Peace (IDP), and Mr. Kim Hyak Chol from the DPRK IDP. Dr. Vladimir Yakubovsky from the Institute for Far Eastern Studies in Moscow, Lt. Col. Zhao Bao, Mr. Mark Mohr from the U.S. Department of Energy, and Prof. Chu Shulong from Tsinghua University.
Mr. Tu Jingchang, Second Secretary from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Robert Scalapino, UC Berkeley, Mr. Lee Seo-Hang from the ROK Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, and Mr. Suh Hyung-Won from the ROK National Security Council. Ambassador Fu Ying, Director General of the Asian Department of the PRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Don Keyser, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the East Asia and Pacific Bureau of the U.S. State Department, and Mr. Pak Hyon Kae, Section Chief of the Institute for Disarmament and Peace of the DPRK. Prof. Susan Shirk, Mr. Kazuhiro Suzuki from Japan's Foreign Ministry, and Dr. Yuan Jian, Vice-President of the China Institute of International Studies. Mr. Sergey Goncharov, Minister-Counselor of the Russian Embassy in Beijing, talking with Ambassador Qin Huasun, a special advisor to the China Institute of International Studies.