Specialist Network
The ECNK Specialist Network is a network of non-resident fellows and can be used to identify experts in the field of North Korean Studies.
Academic backgrounds represented in the network include...
- anthropology
- arts & culture
- borderlands
- economics
- geography
- history
- linguistics
- literature
- politics & society
- journalism
Expertise on North Korea spans...
- cyber capabilities & security
- domestic politics & leadership
- external economic relations
- foreign relations & diplomacy
- foreign aid & humanitarianism
- gender & women's rights
- human rights
- marketization & economic development
- media & communication
- migration & defection
- military affairs
- music
- nuclear weapons & missiles
- propaganda & ideology
- sanctions
- social & cultural trends
- translation
Interested in joining?
If you are a scholar of North Korea and wish to join as a Non-Resident Fellow, send us request via the Join Us page.
Search our Specialist Network by name, or select one or more of the keywords below:
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- Fields: History; Politics & society
- Expertise: Cyber capabilities & security; Foreign relations & diplomacy; Military affairs; Nuclear weapons & missiles
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- Fields: Politics & society
- Expertise: Foreign relations & diplomacy
- Contact: E-mail
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Research Professor
Chung-Ang University
- Fields: Anthropology; History
- Expertise: Migration & defection; Propaganda & ideology
- Contact: E-mail
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Lecturer
BNU-HKBU United International College
- Fields: Anthropology; Linguistics; Politics & society
- Expertise: Migration & defection; Propaganda & ideology; Chongryon organisation (a pro-North Korean organisation)
- Contact: E-mail
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State Media Specialist
NK News
- Fields: Politics & society; Journalism
- Expertise: Media & communication; Propaganda & ideology; Social & cultural trends
- Contact: E-mail
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Director of Policy
The Korea Society
- Fields: Anthropology; Economics; History; Politics & society; Journalism
- Expertise: Domestic politics & leadership; External economic relations; Foreign relations & diplomacy; Foreign aid & humanitarianism; Human rights; Marketization & economic development; Media & communication; Migration & defection; Military affairs; Nuclear weapons & missiles; Propaganda & ideology; Social & cultural trends
- Contact: X.com
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DPRK Program Director
American Friends Service Committee
- Fields: Humanitarian Engagement
- Expertise: Foreign aid & humanitarianism, Sanctions
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Research Professor
Seoul National University Institute of International Affairs
- Fields: History; Politics & society
- Contact: E-Mail
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Former UK Ambassador to the DPRK
- Fields: History; Politics & society
- Expertise: Domestic politics & leadership; External economic relations; Foreign relations & diplomacy; Marketization & economic development; Nuclear weapons & missiles; Propaganda & ideology; Sanctions
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Research Assistant
Istituto per gli studi di politica internazionale (ISPI)
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Professor of History of Music
Departamento de Musivoloxía, Conservatorio Superior de Música da Coruña
- Fields: Arts & culture; History; Music
- Expertise: Music
- Contact: E-mail
- Tel.: +34 675281961
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- Expertise: Domestic politics & leadership; External economic relations; Foreign relations & diplomacy; Marketization & economic development
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Research Associate
University of Lancashire
- Fields: Arts & culture; History; Politics & society
- Expertise: Domestic politics & leadership; Propaganda & ideology
- Contact: E-mail
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Cambridge
- Fields: History; Politics & society
- Expertise: Domestic politics & leadership; Foreign relations & diplomacy; Korean Unification; DPRK-US Relations; Inter-Korean Relations
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Professor
University of Sydney
- Fields: Geography; Politics & society
- Expertise: External economic relations; Marketization & economic development; Nuclear weapons & missiles; Sanctions
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Asia Regional Advocacy Coordinator
American Friends Service Committee
- Fields: Policy advocacy
- Expertise: Foreign aid & humanitarianism
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Senior Fellow
East Asian International Relations (EAIR) Caucus
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Strategic Analyst
The Hague Centre For Strategic Studies (HCSS)
- Fields: Economics, History; Linguistics; Politics & society; Cybersecurity; Intelligence
- Expertise: Cyber capabilities & security; Domestic politics & leadership; External economic relations; Foreign relations & diplomacy; Human rights; Military affairs; Nuclear weapons & missiles; Sanctions
- Contact: Website, E-mail, X.com
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Project Manager
Samsung Austria
- Fields: Anthropology; Arts & culture; History; Politics & society
- Expertise: Social & cultural trends; Cultural heritage, laws and policies on heritage conservation
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Foreign Area Officer
United States Navy
- Fields: Politics & society
- Expertise: Military affairs
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Senior Researcher
Kangwon Institute for Unification Studies, Kangwon National University
- Fields: Politics & society; Journalism
- Expertise: Domestic politics & leadership; Media & communication; Propaganda & ideology; Social & cultural trends
- Contact: E-mail
- Tel.: +82-33-250-8032
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Senior Analyst
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University
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Associate Research Fellow
Swedish Institute for International Affairs
- Fields: Anthropology; Economics; History; Politics & society; Journalism
- Expertise: Domestic politics & leadership; External economic relations; Foreign relations & diplomacy; Foreign aid & humanitarianism; Human rights; Marketization & economic development; Migration & defection; Propaganda & ideology; Sanctions; Social & cultural trends
- Contact: Website, X.com, E-mail
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ISE Senior Research Fellow in Peace and Reconciliation Studies
Trinity College Dublin
- Fields: Politics & society
- Expertise: Foreign relations & diplomacy; Foreign aid & humanitarianism
- Contact: E-mail
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Associate Faculty of Criminal Justice
The University of Arizona Global Campus
- Fields: Cybersecurity; Criminal justice
- Expertise: Cyber capabilities & security; Foreign relations & diplomacy; Nuclear weapons & missiles; Sanctions
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Professorial-lecturer at American University
Global Peace Foundation
- Fields: Arts & culture; History; Religious Studies
- Expertise: Human rights; Propaganda & ideology; Social & cultural trends
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Assistant Professor
Hanyang University
- Fields: Economics; History
- Expertise: External economic relations; Foreign relations & diplomacy
- Contact: E-mail
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Professor
University of North Korean Studies
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Sheffield
- Fields: Anthropology; Arts & culture; Economics; Politics & society; Development Studies
- Expertise: Foreign relations & diplomacy; Foreign aid & humanitarianism; Gender & women's rights; Human rights; Marketization & economic development; Migration & defection; Propaganda & ideology; Social & cultural trends
- Contact: Website, E-mail
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Professor
Kookmin University
- Fields: History; Politics & society; Journalism
- Expertise: Domestic politics & leadership; Foreign relations & diplomacy; Marketization & economic development; Migration & defection; Propaganda & ideology; Social & cultural trends
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Public Policy Fellow
Wilson Center
- Fields: History; Politics & society; Journalism
- Expertise: Cyber capabilities & security; Domestic politics & leadership; External economic relations; Foreign relations & diplomacy; Gender & women's rights; Media & communication; Propaganda & ideology; Sanctions; Social & cultural trends
- Contact: Website
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Senior Fellow
38 North
- Fields: Politics & society; Regional studies: Korean Peninsula/North Korea
- Expertise: Domestic politics & leadership; Foreign relations & diplomacy; Marketization & economic development; Media & communication; Propaganda & ideology; Social & cultural trends; Translation
- Contact: Website, X.com, E-mail
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Senior Advisor
Center for Humanitarian Dialogue
- Fields: Politics & society
- Expertise: Domestic politics & leadership; Foreign relations & diplomacy; Foreign aid & humanitarianism; Military affairs; Nuclear weapons & missiles
- Contact: E-mail
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Assistant Professor
Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures of the Polish Academy of Sciences
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Reader (Professor)
University of Central Lancashire
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Consultant/Analyst
38 North/Stimson Center
- Fields: Anthropology; History; Politics & society
- Expertise: Cyber capabilities & security; Domestic politics & leadership; Foreign relations & diplomacy; Military affairs
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Programme Manager, Asia
Geneva Centre for Security Policy
- Fields: Politics & society
- Expertise: Foreign relations & diplomacy; Military affairs
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Professor Emerita
Australian National University
- Fields: History
- Expertise: Foreign relations & diplomacy; Human rights
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Independent Consultant
- Fields: Economics; Geography; Food Security Nutrition
- Expertise: Foreign aid & humanitarianism; Marketization & economic development; Agriculture
- Contact: , Tel.: +44 (0) 7817339103
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Senior Associate for Korea
Wilson Center
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Professor
Kyungnam University
- Fields: Politics & society; International Relations; Peacebuilding; Trustbuilding
- Expertise: Foreign relations; Tourism; Ideology
- Contact: E-mail
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Stanton Senior Fellow
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Fields: Politics & society; Journalism; Defense and security
- Expertise: Cyber capabilities & security; Foreign relations & diplomacy; Military affairs; Nuclear weapons & missiles
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CEO
The Park Group
- Fields: History; Politics & society; Journalism
- Expertise: Cyber capabilities & security; Domestic politics & leadership; External economic relations; Foreign relations & diplomacy; Foreign aid & humanitarianism; Gender & women's rights; Human rights; Military affairs; Nuclear weapons & missiles; Propaganda & ideology; Sanctions; Social & cultural trends; Translation
- Contact: Website, X.com, E-mail
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Lecturer in International Relations
Troy University
- Fields: Economics; Politics & society; Security
- Expertise: Cyber capabilities & security; Domestic politics & leadership; Foreign relations & diplomacy; Military affairs; Nuclear weapons & missiles; Propaganda & ideology; Translation
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Kim Koo Fellow
The Korea Society
- Fields: Economics, Politics & society, International relations, Security studies
- Expertise: Foreign relations & diplomacy, Military affairs, Nuclear weapons & missiles, Sanctions, China–Russia–DPRK relations, Nuclear proliferation, Arms transfers, Defense-industrial cooperation
- Contact: LinkedIn
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Lecturer in Chinese Studies
University of Manchester
- Fields: Anthropology; Borderlands; Politics & society
- Expertise: External economic relations; Foreign relations & diplomacy; Chinese/Soviet-Russian relations
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Associate Professor
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
- Field: History
- Expertise: Gender & women's rights; Media & communication; Propaganda & ideology; Social & cultural trends
- Contact: E-mail
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Research Assistant
Observer Research Foundation
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Associate Professor
American University of Kurdistan
- Fields: Literature; Politics & society; Journalism; International Cooperation & Development; Political Economy
- Expertise: External economic relations; Foreign relations & diplomacy; Foreign aid & humanitarianism; Gender & women's rights; Human rights; Marketization & economic development; Sanctions; Social & cultural trends; Education; human development; compliance with the international system
- Contact: Website, E-mail
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Project Coordinator and Junior Research Fellow
Institute for Security and Development Policy
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Professor
Kyung Hee University
- Fields: Politics & society
- Expertise: Foreign relations & diplomacy
- Contact: E-mail
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Analyst
Open Nuclear Network
- Fields: Defense; Science & technology
- Expertise: Military affairs; Nuclear weapons & missiles
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Stanton Foundation Nuclear Security Fellow
RAND Corporation
- Fields: Borderlands; History; Politics & society; Terrorism; U.S-North Korea relations; North Korea-Global South relations;
- Expertise: Cyber capabilities & security; Domestic politics & leadership; Foreign relations & diplomacy; Military affairs; Propaganda & ideology; Sanctions
- Contact: Website, X.com, E-mail
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Professor of International Relations and Political Science
Bucknell University
