WASHINGTON, March 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being
 issued by the National Press Club:
                             NPC Newsmaker Program
 
                                 Media Advisory
 
                             Friday April 13, 2007
                                   12:00 noon
 
                  National Press Club (First Amendment Lounge)
 
   The Atlantic Council of the United States Will Discuss Its Report on North
                                     Korea.
     The United States has few more important policy goals than eliminating
 North Korea's nuclear weapons program and the danger that it could transfer
 nuclear weapons or materials to rogue states or terrorist groups.
     The Atlantic Council of the United States will release its report,
 "Towards a Comprehensive Settlement in Korea: A Framework for Peace and
 Security in Korea and Northeast Asia," at a National Press Club Newsmaker
 event. This report, compiled by the Atlantic Council's working group on
 U.S. relations with North Korea, calls for a series of parallel
 negotiations on security, political, and economic issues to effectively
 denuclearize North Korea.
     Panelists will be:
 
     Ambassador James Goodby (Ret.), Brookings Institution
     Gen. Jack Merritt, U.S. Army (Ret.), former director of the Joint Staff
     Donald Gross, Atlantic Council senior fellow
     Frederick Kempe, president and CEO of the Atlantic Council of the United
      States
 
 

SOURCE National Press Club