North Korean threat focus of panel discussion at university

   The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and its Project for Strategic Asia is scheduled to host a panel discussion titled, "The North Korean Nuclear Crisis: Analysis of Threat Potential and International Relations," at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 27 in 219 Aaron Burr Hall of Princeton University.
   The panelists will include Frank von Hippel and Christopher Chyba, co-directors of the Program on Science and Global Security; Aaron Friedberg, professor of politics and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; and Gilbert Rozman, Musgrave Professor of Sociology.
   Mr. Chyba, who is also a professor of astrophysical sciences and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, will speak on North Korean uranium and missile programs.
   Mr. Friedberg, former deputy national security adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, will speak on the nation’s options for responding to North Korea’s nuclear test.
   Mr. Rozman, who specializes in comparisons and relations in Northeast Asia, will speak about the views of the six-party talks from four countries caught between North Korea and the United States.
   Mr. von Hippel, a professor of politics and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, former assistant director for national security in the White House Office of Science and Technology and a MacArthur fellow, will speak on North Korea’s plutonium production and its nuclear test.
   The lecture is free and open to the public.