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John Park

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U.S. Institute of Peace
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John Park

Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

Contact:
Email: John_Park@harvard.edu

 

Experience

Dr. John Park is an Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom's North Korea Analysis Group at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.  Dr. Park received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University where he was a Canadian Government Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellow.  While a predoctoral research fellow at Harvard from 1998–2000, he completed his dissertation on International Atomic Energy Agency inspections during the 1994 North Korean nuclear crisis.

Prior to returning to Harvard for his postdoctoral studies, Dr. Park worked in Goldman Sachs’s M&A Advisory Group in Hong Kong and The Boston Consulting Group's Financial Services Practice in Seoul.  In both posts, he specialized in post–Asian financial crisis economic restructuring projects in South Korea.  His current research focuses on the multilateral diplomatic efforts to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis.  He has been conducting extensive on-going research interviews with each of the Six-Party Talks member countries’ core government policy advisers.

His recent publications include “Inside Multilateralism: The Six-Party Talks,” The Washington Quarterly (Autumn 2005), and “Creating a Best Case Scenario” (book chapter) in John Barry Kotch and Frank-Jürgen Richter (eds.), Korea Confronts the Future (Marshall Cavendish, 2005).  His writings have appeared in Asian Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Korea Times, Korea Herald, Straits Times, Globe and Mail, South China Morning Post, and Japan Times.  He has also been a commentator on the Six-Party Talks on BBC World Service, CNN, CNBC Asia, Bloomberg TV, NPR, and Reuters.

Dr. Park is currently the coordinator of the Korea Working Group at the U.S. Institute of Peace.  He will be maintaining his research affiliation with the Project on Managing the Atom.

 

 

By Date

 

2008

January 3, 2008

"Keeping an Eye on an Unruly Neighbor: Chinese Views of Economic Reform and Stability in North Korea"

Working Paper

By Bonnie Glaser, Scott Snyder and John Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

"Beijing viewed North Korea's explosion of a nuclear device in October 2006 as not only an act of defiance to the international community and a threat to regional stability, but also an act of defiance toward China. Chinese officials admit that their toolbox for managing the North Korean nuclear weapons challenge must now include a combination of pressure and inducements."

 

2006

June, 2006

How China Can Bring Sunshine to Korea

Journal Article, Far Eastern Economic Review, issue 5, volume 169

By John Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

 

 

April 5, 2006

Path for Seoul's Sunshine Policy

Op-Ed, The Korea Times

By John Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

 

2005

Autumn 2005

"Inside Multilateralism: The Six-Party Talks"

Journal Article, The Washington Quarterly, issue 4, volume 28

By John Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

Despite extensive diplomatic efforts to facilitate the six-party talks, domestic policy constraints, differing priorities, and conflicting historical analogies among each of the countries have brought vastly differing perspectives to the multilateral negotiating table.

 

 

Spring 2005

Detecting Danger

Journal Article, Harvard International Review, Correspondence, issue 1, volume 27

By John Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

 

 

February 23, 2005

A Road Map -- The Only Route for Beijing

Op-Ed, The South China Morning Post

By John Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

 

 

February 23, 2005

"North Korea's Grip on China"

Op-Ed, The Globe and Mail

By John Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

"In the North Korean nuclear standoff, there is a major difference between having leverage and the ability to use it. China has the former, but not the latter. North Korea has both."

 

 

February 12, 2005

China's Herculean N. Korea Task

Op-Ed, The Korea Herald

By John Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

 

2004

May 14, 2004

North Korean Crisis: China Shows the Way to Pyongyang

Op-Ed, Interntional Herald Tribune

By John Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

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February 5, 2004

China Takes 'Xiaokang' Approach to N. Korea

Op-Ed, The Straits Times

By John Park, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

 

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