Issues and Prospects of US-North Korea Negotiations after the 2020 US Presidential Election - Differences in the way of negotiating with North Korea: bottom-up and top-down
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 4:00P.M. (CST)
Dr. Sung-Wook Nam
Dr. Sung-wook Nam is an East Asia expert with the theoretical and practical experience in academia, government and intelligence services on North Korea and China. He has worked as an analyst for Korean National Intelligence Service and an advisor to Ministry of National Defense, Ministry of National Unification and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Nam is Dean of Graduate School of Public Policy, Korea University and director of Center for North Koreanology at the Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University since 2013. He received his PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. He also works as a commentator on international affairs at the Korea Broadcasting Service since 2008. His academic career includes four years as Professor of North Korean Studies at Ewha Women’s University and five years as the head of the School of National Intelligence Academy.
His positions in the government since entering academia in 1999 include the President of Institute for National Security Strategy in 2008–2011. Also, he was the general director of National Unification Council Advisory (vice-minister level) in 2012–2013. In addition to numerous papers and books, he is the author of North Korean Food Shortage and Reform of Collective Farm (Munchen Germany: Hertze Verlag, 2006). He is the author of North Korean Nuclear Weapon and Reunification of the Korean Peninsula (Singapore: World Scientific, 2019). He is co-author of South Korea’s 70-Year Endeavor for Foreign Policy, National Defense, and Unification (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and also Mysterious Pyoungyang: Beauty of Women and Cosmetics (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
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