Dr. Stephen Noerper is Korea Society senior director, adjunct associate professor of political science at Columbia University, and a fellow with Columbia’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute and Pacific Forum CSIS. The author of more than seventy publications on US policy, Korea and Northeast Asia, Dr. Noerper taught prior as an associate professor at NYU and Hawaii’s Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, and as a visiting professor at American University, Waseda University and the National University of Mongolia. In this talk, he argues that the US and international community expand the focus on missile and nuclear development to development and human security to win new leverage at the negotiation table and establish a better foundation for peace and security.