Prof. David Straub will lecture at GSIS


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 Last updated: 2007-01-29

David Straub, former Korea country director at the U.S. Department of State,
will lecture at Seoul National University (SNU) this spring.

He will lecture for one semester at the Graduate School of International Studies, SNU .

`I will be discussing U.S.-Korea, Japan-Korea relations and nuclear issues
during the semester,’’ Straub was quoted as saying by local newspaper Kyungyang Shinmun.

The former senior foreign service officer retired from the government in 2006.
He worked on Northeast Asian affairs for some 30 years.

Straub first came to Seoul in 1979. He served as head of the political section
at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul for four years. He also played a key role in the
six-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear program as the U.S. State Department’s
Korea country desk director from 2002 to 2004.

Straub has been lecturing on U.S.-Korea relations at Johns Hopkins University’s
School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C.


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