On September 7, 2018, the Asan Institute for Policy Studies hosted a closed roundtable with Amb. Robert Loftis, a professor of the practice of diplomacy at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University and Mr. Reid Pauly, a pre-doctoral fellow at the Harvard Belfer Center. The participants discussed current situations of the ROK-US alliance, the North Korean nuclear issue and ROK-US Special Measures Agreement Consultations.