Jina Kim is the Dean of the Language and Diplomacy Division of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. She currently serves on various advisory boards, including the United Nations Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters as well as those of the Republic of Korea Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of National Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force, and Peaceful Unification Advisory Council. She is also a member of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN). She was previously the Chief of the North Korean Military Division at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses and an Adjunct Professor at the Yonsei Graduate School of International Studies. She has also served as a member of the advisory board for the Blue House National Security Office, Ministry of National Unification, and US-ROK Combined Force Command, a member of the Policy Evaluation Committee for the Prime Minister’s Office, and a guest author at Brookings Institution.
Professor Kim holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and a M.A. in International Studies from the Yonsei Graduate School of International Studies. As a scholar concentrating on security studies and international organizations, she authored North Korean Nuclear Weapons Crisis (Palgrave McMillan 2014), US Policy toward North Korea: Change for the Future (KIDA 2022), and Cooperative Threat Reduction and the Korean Peninsula (KIDA 2020) and co-authored numerous books including The Sheathed Sword (Bloomsbury 2022), Handbook of Europe-Korea Relations (Routledge 2021), and Pathways to Peace: Achieving the Stable Transformation of the Korean Peninsula (Hudson Institute 2020). Furthermore, she also published more than 50 monographs and articles in leading academic journals including Survival, The Washington Quarterly, International Spectator, Journal of International Relations, and Korean Journal of Defense Analysis.
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