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The Asia Security Initiative Research Center at the East Asia Institute hosted the 7th Smart Talk Forum on June 1, 2010. Dr. Igor Khripunov, director of the Center for International Trade and Security, gave a brief speech on “the Washington Nuclear Summit and Challenges on the Road to the Korean Summit in 2012” followed by discussions with invited panelists from South Korea.

Topic

“The Washington Nuclear Summit and Challenges on the Road to the Korean Summit in 2012”

Presenter

Dr. Igor Khripunov, Director of the Center for International Trade and Security

Moderator

Chaesung Chun (East Asia Institute; Seoul National University)

Discussants

Du Hyeogn Cha (Korea Institute for Defense Analyses)

Kyung-young Chung (Catholic University of Korea)

Jihwan Hwang (Myongji University)

Dong-Joon Jo (University of Seoul)

Young-Ho Kim (Korea National Defense University)

Jay Nash (Center for International Trade and Security)

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Biographical Sketch 

Dr. Igor Khripunov

University of Georgia

After being employed for six years at the U.N. Secretariat in New York, Igor Khripunov joined in 1977 the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1983, he received a Ph.D. in international relations from the Moscow-based Diplomatic Academy and resumed his diplomatic career as an arms control expert.

In this capacity Igor Khripunov took part in a number of arms control fora and talks, including Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), Intermediate Nuclear Force Treaty (INF), Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) and others. In 1987, he was posted as a first secretary of the political and military section at the Soviet Embassy in Washington, DC. His areas of expertise include arms control and disarmament, WMD proliferation and terrorism, nuclear security and physical protection, safety and security culture, risk communication, export control, conventional weapons trade, arms control compliance and verification.

After resigning from the Russian Foreign Service in 1992, Igor Khripunov joined the Center for International Trade and Security (formerly the Center for East-West Trade Policy) at the University of Georgia and is now its Interim Director. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Georgia’s School of Public and International Affairs. He is a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Igor Khripunov has contributed to a number of books and book chapters on international relations and is author of numerous articles including those in recent issues of Arms Control Today, Comparative Strategy, Security Dialogue, Jane’s Intelligence Review, Nonproliferation Review, Problems of Post-Communism, and The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.