The 3-year Korean War ceased with the armistice in 1953, and the related parties tried hard to have negotiated on peace arrangements that could replace the armistice, terminate the state of war, and bring about permanent peace and stability to the divided Peninsula. But both the Geneva Conference in 1954 and the Geneva based Four Party Talks between 1997 and 1999 failed to reach that goal. The Six Party Talks launched in 2003 for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula has also set "the peace regime" replacing the armistice as one of common goals among directly related parties. Will the new multilateral diplomatic efforts initiated by the Six Party Talks be successful in setting up a new peace regime, and bring a new security environment to the Peninsula? What are the major issues, challenges, as well as opportunities faced with the possible negotiations on "the peace regime"? Xiyu Yang will present his research findings, observations, and analysis on those questions.

Xiyu Yang is a 2006-2007 Pantech Fellow at Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University. His research interest is in "the peace regime replacing the armistice in the Korean Peninsula." Before he joined APARC, he was the Director of the Office for Korean Peninsula Issues in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China. As a career diplomat, he was heavily involved in both the Geneva based Four Party Talks and the Beijing based Six Party Talks, and contributed to drafting The Joint Statement of the Fourth Round of the Six Party Talks in September of 2005.