Has it been helpful or useful to place North Korea along with Iraq and Iran in President Bush's "Axis of Evil?" What has been gained, and what has been lost, in American policy toward Korea since 2000?

About Bruce Cumings:

Bruce Cumings is the Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of International History and East Asian Political Economy at the University of Chicago. He is the author of the two-volume study, The Origins of the Korean War, which won the John King Fairbank Book Award of the American Historical Association and the Quincy Wright Book Award of the International Studies Association. His publications include War and Television, Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History, Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American—East Asian Relations, and North Korea: Another Country. He co-authored Inventing the Axis of Evil, is the editor of the modern volume of the Cambridge History of Korea.

The visit and lecture is sponsored by ASU's Center for Asian Research with assistance from the ASU Korean Studies Program.