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Thanks again to the Korean Embassy, to Ambassador Young(?), to the Korean Rosetta Stone Foundation, and please, to Korean friends who came a long way. We wish you a good night's sleep, and we'll start bright and early tomorrow morning. Thank you all very much for coming (Applause).Welcoming RemarksKurt Campbell [KC]: I8217;m Kurt Campbell, Vice President here at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and on behalf of the Center, let me welcome you all to what we hope will be an excellent conference that is designed to look at U.S.- Korean relations, inter-Korean relations in the past, in the present, hopefully into the future. I think this is an excellent opportunity to take stock. We've tried to invite the people from both the Center and the Council on Foreign Relations, who have devoted their lives, a good measure of their professional and private lives to improving relations between all three parties, and we're looking forward today to having people address these issues as we go forward. Let me just say very quickly that we're very grateful to the Korea Foundation and particularly to the Korean Embassy for all their support and leadership on these Rosetta Stone Software important issues. We got up to a very good start last night, with Ambassador Gallucci, who really gave a very deep set of remarks concerning the future of American policy on the peninsula, and what it might mean for North Korea. If any North Korean friends were in the audience, I don't think they would have taken very much heart from what was described. Let me just say very quickly that we're also very grateful to the Council on Foreign Relations who approached and said, Let's work together. We've had a series of meetings, and much like North and South Korea, we managed to come together around a common goal. We've worked with Alton and his excellent staff, and we're really very grateful to have him here. Let me just ask him to say a few words of welcome before we get immediately started on Panel 1.Alton Frye [AF]: Kurt, thank you very much. I also want to add a very warm welcome to people that have been working on an issue of great importance to all of us, even those of us not as attentive to it as the rest of you. I think one of the most important aspects of the collaboration, a happy collaboration, the Council enjoys with the CSIS community, with Kurt, and John Henry and the others, is the ability to speak openly and directly about these large issues in international affairs, that affect all of us, without regard to party or position. One of the enduring challenges in the public policy sector is to keep focus on the major issues, the major challenges that demand attention but don't always get attention. I think especially when we find ourselves preoccupied with such a consuming problem as terrorism. A very important question slipped to the periphery. Officials like presidents and prime ministers have 365 degree responsibilities. And it's extremely difficult to keep focused even on other important problems. So I think both the Council and the Center share an important goal of helping keep focus on the long standing, profound and chronic challenges Rosetta Stone Greek that it bear on security in the Korean Peninsula. At the Council, we've been doing that for the last several years, in the continuing task force on Korea, Co-Chaired by Ambassador Jim Laney and Ambassador Morton Abramowitz.