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John Park

John Park

Director | North Korea Project, Harvard Kennedy School

Dr. John Park is the Director of the Korea Project at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. His core research projects focus on deterrence, economic statecraft, nuclear proliferation, Asian alliances, and North Korean cyber operations. He was the 2012-13 Stanton Nuclear Security Junior Faculty Fellow at MIT’s Security Studies Program. At Harvard University, he is an Associated Faculty Member of the Korea Institute, Faculty Member of the Committee on Regional Studies East Asia, and a Faculty Affiliate with the Project on Managing the Atom. Earlier, Dr. Park worked at Goldman Sachs and The Boston Consulting Group. He also directed Northeast Asia Track 1.5 dialogues at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. He advises Northeast Asia policy-focused officials in the U.S. government. He has testified on North Korea before the Senate Banking Committee, House Financial Services Committee, and House Foreign Affairs Committee. Dr. Park received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He completed his predoctoral and postdoctoral training at Harvard University.

Answers

Are things better or worse compared to the time of the U.S.-North agreement?

Can the U.S. take out North Korea’s nuclear weapons with a military strike?

Is there an emerging missile race in East Asia?

Was the 1994 U.S.-North Korea Agreed Framework a failure?

What does North Korea want?

What is one misperception people tend to have about North Korea?

What should we know about sanctions?

When I say “North Korea”, what words or feelings come to mind?

Why does North Korea test nuclear weapons?