Biography
Dr. Jin-Ha Kim is a senior research fellow at the North Korean Research Division at the Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU). Dr. Kim received his B.A. in Political Science & International Relations from Korea University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Chicago University. He served as a research director of the Korean Association of International Studies, director of the Planning and Coordination Division in KINU, senior researcher at the National Unification Advisory Council, policy advisor at the Presidential Committee for Unification Preparation, and evaluation member at the Office for Government Policy Coordination. His recent publications include, Kim Jong-un Regime’s Nuclear Diplomacy and Changes of Foreign Policy(co-authored, KINU, 2021), North Korea’s Diplomatic Policy: The Policy Pattern and Case Analysis on North Korean Nuclear Diplomacy (co-authored, KINU, 2020), Routes for Stabilizing Dictatorship and North Korea’s Centralizing Strategy of Personal Power (2021), Revisionist Origin of North Korea’s Military Coercive Diplomacy (2020), North Korea’s Offensive Realism and the Strategy of Nationalism (2020) (all in Korean), and Who Denuclearize Whom? Pyongyang’s Revisionist Aims and the Risk of Negative Assurance (2019) (in English).