The Atlanta Municipal Chapter (head: Cho Seong-hyuk) of the US held on April 8 a unification lecture conference at Seo Ra Beol Restaurant in Duluth, with Tufts University Professor Lee Sung-yoon as lecturer.

Professor Lee, whose lecture was themed “Foreign Strategy of North Korea and Response of Korea and USA,” noted that North Korea will not give up its nuclear weapon because the only means of survival by the Kim Jong-un regime is to use threats and force. “It would be difficult to make North Korea give up its nuclear weapon by negotiations. Provocations by North Korea will continue if we merely show strong confrontation by words without increasing the level of tension,” he added.

On April 9, the Atlanta Municipal Chapter held a talk concert for Korean college students from Georgia Tech and GSU branches of LiNK, an organization for North Korean human rights. During the talk concert, which was held at the lecture hall of the Dept. of Computer Science at Georgia Tech, a debate on the latest circumstances on the Korean peninsula followed Professor Lee Sung-yoon’s lecture.