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Speaker: Ambassador Charles L. Pritchard, Visiting Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution
Charles L. Pritchard, an expert on U.S. relations with Japan and Korea, was a top aide to President Bush in the administration's negotiations with North Korea and the U.S. Representative to the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO). He was also special assistant to the President and senior director for Asian affairs in the Clinton administration. Pritchard joined the Brookings Institution as a visiting fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies program on September 2, 2003. While at Brookings, Pritchard has published “North Korea Needs A Personal Touch”, Los Angeles Times (09/10/03); “A Guarantee to Bring Kim into Line”, Financial Times 10/10/03); “Freeze on North Korea Nuclear Program is Imperative”, The Korea Herald (01/09/04); “What I Saw in North Korea”, New York Times (01/21/04), “While the US Looked for Iraqi WMD North Korea Built Theirs”, YaleGlobal (01/01/04), and “U.S. Should Confide in Allies on North Korean Nukes”, Asahi Shimbun/International Herald Tribune (08/06-07/04).
Following a twenty-eight year career in the army, during which he held military assign-ments with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, as its country director for Japan, and as the U.S. Army Attaché in Tokyo, Pritchard joined the National Security Council in 1996.
Pritchard obtained his B.A. in Political Science from Mercer University in Georgia and his M.A. in International Studies from the University of Hawaii. He is the recipient of the Defense Distinguished Service Medal.