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Jae H. Ku, Ph.D.photo, Ku
Director of the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS; Professorial Lecturer

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Geographic Areas
North Korea | South Korea

Background and Education
Formerly was director of human rights for the North Korea Project at Freedom House; taught at Brown University, Yonsei University in Seoul and Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul; was a recipient of Fulbright and Freeman fellowships; conducted research at various think tanks, including the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Korean Institute of International Studies in Seoul and the Institute for International Relations in Hanoi; Ph.D., international relations, SAIS

Foreign Languages
Korean

Publications
Rethinking North Korean Collapse (forthcoming 2011); Change and Challenge on the Korean Peninsula: Developments, Trends and Issues, Vol. 5, co-editor (1996); "Prospects for North Korea: Facing a Regime Crisis and Regime Collapse," co-author, in Change and Challenge on the Korean Peninsula: Past, Present and Future, Vol. 6 (1996); articles in The Washington Quarterly, The World & I, The Chosun Ilbo, The Korea Times and The Korea Herald and for the Scripps Howard News Service; has appeared on numerous news programs

Contact Information:
Room: Bernstein-Offit 608
Phone: 202.663.5712
jku1@jhu.edu

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