Tensions between China, the United States, and their respective allies present challenges to East Asian countries, particularly in the cyber domain. One critical issue pertains to the risk to internet infrastructure, the backbone of global communication and commerce. The internet, though decentralized, relies on several key control points that could be targeted during conflicts. Nations with highly nationalized internet infrastructure, such as China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, could disrupt these control points during conflict, causing severe economic and infrastructural damage. What specific vulnerabilities does South Korea’s internet infrastructure face? This event celebrates the launch of a CLTC white paper that answers this question. Join us for a panel discussion Nick Merrill (CLTC), Sanghyun Han (Georgia Tech) and Jenny Jun (Columbia/Atlantic Council), where the panelists will discuss the white paper’s findings and the relevance for South Korean and international policymaking.
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FEATURED SPEAKERS
Sanghyun Han is a Ph.D. student in International Affairs, Science, and Technology at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology. His area of interest is economic statecraft and emerging technologies intersecting international political economy and security. His research appears in Business & Politics, The National Interests, and Korea Policy in addition to the two chapters for edited volumes. (He was a Graduate Research Assistant at the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy housed within the Nunn School and the CSIS Korea Chair’s NextGen Young Leader. Prior to the Ph.D. program, he was the Korea Foundation Global Challenger Fellow and a consultant afterward, both at the Atlantic Council. He also worked at the National Bureau of Asian Research, Center for Foreign Policy Strategy, Institute of International Studies, and East Asia Foundation.) Sanghyun holds an M.A. in International Relations from Seoul National University and a B.A. in International Studies from the Catholic University of Korea, Seoul.
Jenny Jun is an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology. She also serves as Non-resident Fellow on the CyberAI Project at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), where she was previously a Research Fellow. Jenny’s research focuses on international security, cyber conflict, emerging technologies, and Korean peninsula security issues. She has testified before Congress on the implications of North Korea’s cyber threat and is a co-author of the 2015 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) report North Korea’s Cyber Operations: Strategy and Responses. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University and received her M.A. and B.S. each from the Security Studies Program (SSP) and the School of Foreign Service (SFS) at Georgetown University.
Nick Merrill directs the Daylight Lab at the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. His work blends methods from design to data science to understand how corporate and state power tangle in technical infrastructures like the internet, and how that tangling circumscribes lives for people to live.
