Yonho Kim is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI). He specializes in North Korea’s mobile telecommunications and U.S. policy towards North Korea. Kim is the author of “North Korea’s Mobile Telecommunications and Private Transportation Services in the Kim Jong-un Era” and “Cell Phones in North Korea: Has North Korea Entered the Telecommunications Revolution?” His research findings were covered by US, Korean, French, and Spanish media, including the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and Libération.
Before joining KEI, Kim was Senior Researcher of the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and the editor of the USKI Washington Review. From 2008 to 2015, he was a Senior Reporter for Voice of America’s Korean Service, where he covered the North Korean economy, North Korea’s illicit activities, and economic sanctions against North Korea. From 2003 to 2008, he was a broadcaster for Radio Free Asia’s Korean Service, focusing on developments in and around North Korea and US-ROK alliance issues. From 2001 to 2003, he was the Assistant Director of the Atlantic Council’s Program on Korea in Transition.
Kim holds a B.A. and M.A. in International Relations from Seoul National University, and an M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.