On March 16, 2018, the NCAFP organized a one-day conference with a visiting delegation from the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) to discuss policy coordination on the North Korean nuclear issue.
The conference took place shortly after the Pyeongchang Olympics at which a high-level North Korean envoy delivered a summit invitation from Kim Jong Un to ROK President Moon Jae-in, and immediately after both the departure of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the surprise announcement that President Trump would follow the Kim-Moon summit with one of his own in May. The meeting took place amidst discussion of the imminent departure of U.S. National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster (no confirmted to be replaced with Ambassador John Bolton) and before Kim Jong Un's secret trip to Beijing.