Currently a professor of the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security. He has a B.A. in Political Science from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, an M.A. from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Ph.D. in International politics from Keio University. His area of specialization is U.S.-Japan relations as well as nuclear issues. He is the author of North Korean Nuclear Issues: Negotiating History, U.S.-Japan Security Relations After the Cold War, and Korea-Japan Security Relations After the Cold War.

Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Konkuk University and Honorary Director of the Research Institute for National Unification of the same university. He received his M.A. from Yonsei University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. He is former professor and dean of College of Government, Konkuk University, and a visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley (1993-94). His major works include An Introduction to North Korean Studies, 'Minjung' Unification: Ideal and Reality, and Juche Ideology and North Korean Communism.

Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Area Studies, Seoul National University. Formerly a Professor of the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (1989-97). He holds on an LL.B. from Seoul National University and a Ph.D. in law from Cambridge University. His area of specialization is international law and relations. He has written many articles, including "Nuclear Conundrum," "Building a Peace Regime on the Korean Peninsula," and "Multilateralism and the Korean Peninsula."

Editorial Writer for The Dong-A Ilbo, he holds a B.A., an M.A., and a PhD in Political Science from Seoul National University. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University 1995-96, former instructor at Seoul National University and managing editor of the SNU Weekly. His major books include Political Parties and Political Leadership in Korea, Military and Political Power in Korea, Korean Military, vol. I and II, and Political Remnants of Park Chung-hee.

Research associate at the Korea Institute for Defense Analysis, he holds a B.A. in Political Science from Yonsei University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas at Lawrence. He majored in East Asian Studies and Korean Studies, and wrote "South Korea's Big Business Clientelism in Democratic Reform," "Industrial Clientage in Democratic Reform," "Japan's Self-Defense Forces under New Defense Guidelines" and others.

Currently Research fellow at the Asia-Pacific Research Center, Hanyang University, he holds a B.A. in Political Science from Hanyang University, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Comparative Politics from the same university. His major articles include "A Study of the Structure and Characteristics in the North Korean Political System," "Sorth Korean Policy Toward South Korea: Assessment of Kim Dae-jung Regime's Sunshine Policy," and "A Comparative Study of Foreign Policy towards the Korean Peninsula in China and in the Soviet Union."

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