Jifan Li @jifanl.bsky.social 
Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford CISAC & Distinguished Research Fellow FPRI. Member of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board & National Academies Committee on Int’l Security and Arms Control.
Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos on environmental cleanup, nuclear nonproliferation, and the nuclear fuel cycle.
She/her.
Blogs at Nuclear Diner and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Photo: Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
Alex Ward @alexward.bsky.social National security reporter, The Wall Street Journal. Author, “The Internationalists.” Fan, F.C. Barcelona.
Dave Schmerler @schmerler.bsky.social 
Joseph Dempsey @josephhdempsey.bsky.social Research Associate for Defence & Military Analysis,
The International Institute for Strategic Studies
George William Herbert @georgewherbert.bsky.social IT/Cloud/SRE/PE, rockets & missiles, nukes not going bang, space, CS, ships. YIMBY & amateur transit geek. Part time adjunct @ miis.edu teaching Missiles & Missile Defense. I speak for myself only not $DAYJOB. V95.45XA I do #OSINT against nuclear missiles.
Nicola Smith @niccijsmith.bsky.social Foreign affairs and defence correspondent at the Australian Financial Review. Previously in 🇰🇷, 🇹🇼,🇮🇳for the Telegraph and Sunday Times
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social The class politics of geopolitics. Newsletter, http://Un-Diplomatic.com. Co-host, https://www.BangBangPod.com; https://www.undiplomaticpodcast.com. 🇺🇸🇵🇭🇳🇿. https://www.vanjackson.org
James Pearson @pearswick.press Visual Investigations Journalist at @Reuters.com, via Hanoi, Seoul, Pyongyang and cyberspace. Now in London.
“A bum who wrote an ignominious jumble of stories”
- North Korea ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
📞Signal ID: pearswick.01
💻: pearswick.press
Catherine Dill @catherinedill.bsky.social Formerly known as atomic_pickles, but still thinking about atomic pickles. Fancies: gardens, birds, mountains & rocks, satellites, Delftware, N95s. She/her. Only personal views reflected.
Adam Mount @ajmount.com Deterrence, nuclear strategy, progressive foreign policy.
Fmr. FAS, CAP, CFR, Ph.D. Government, Georgetown.
Bio: ajmount.com
Banners: @uahirise.bsky.social
Eric Brewer @ebrewer.bsky.social Deputy VP at Nuclear Threat Initiative. Previously Director for Counterproliferation at the National Security Council and Deputy National Intelligence Officer for WMD at the National Intelligence Council. Personal account/views my own.
Jesse Johnson @jljzen.bsky.social Covering defense and diplomacy for @japantimes.co.jp • Signal: jljzen.18 • views my own • Japan resident since 2002 • グリーン車 aficionado
Kyle Mizokami @kmizokami.bsky.social I have this thing where I get older but just never wiser | Hachiman Defense Substack https://hachiman.substack.com/ | Formerly covered defense @ Popular Mechanics. Weapons person.
Shea Cotton @sheacotton.bsky.social 
Michael Duitsman @duitsmanms.bsky.social Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Rocket propulsion and radiological security (usually not at the same time). Opinions my own. Faves/RTs ≠ endorsements
38 North @38north.org Informed analysis of events in and around the DPRK. A publication of the Stimson Center. Innovative Ideas Changing the World.
Dan DePetris @dandepetris.bsky.social Syndicated foreign affairs columnist for the Chicago Tribune.
Taepodong @stoa1984.bsky.social Just a rocket
Nuclear Threat Initiative @nti.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan global security organization focused on reducing nuclear, biological, and emerging tech threats imperiling humanity.
NK News @nknewsorg.bsky.social Journalists & analysts covering all things North Korea: Breaking news, culture, opinion & research. Also powering NK PRO. On Mastodon at @nknews@federated.press
Manohar Thyagaraj @mthyagaraj.bsky.social Royal College of Defence Studies. Asian security, international security. 
Robert Ward @robertalanward.bsky.social Director of Geo-economics, Japan Chair ジャパン・チェア・プログラム Senior Fellow for Japanese Security Studies at The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robert-ward-44286611
Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social Astrophysicist
Support the work of Jonathan's Space Report:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/fund-jonathans-space-report-library-transition
Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social Editor/Co-author, “Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of US Nuclear Weapons Since 1940” • Nonresident Senior Fellow, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists • Nuclear weapons expert (history, policy, costs, accidents) and tracker of the nuclear “Football.”
🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social Anthro PhD Candidate
nukes, cats, semiotics, FOIA, existential threat, heritage, nationalism, secrecy, etc
Queer & multiply neurodivergent
RP/Fave/etc ≠agree
he/him
patreon.com/nuclearanthro
paypal.me/nuclearanthro
https://OSF.io/46sfd/
Marco Langbroek @marcolangbroek.bsky.social Lecturer in optical Space Situational Awareness at Delft Technical University, faculty of Aerospace. Spy sats, missiles, meteorites, asteroids. Asteroid (183294). Lapsed Archaeologist (PhD). Rowing. CFS. Opinions my own.
blog: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.c
Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social I'm an editor/correspondent for NPR. Mostly smart on the radio. Mostly stupid on everywhere else.
ChatGPT describes me as: "Aerospace sleuth, nuclear nerd and NPR Superfan — with a side of surreal humor."
Signal: gbrumfiel.13
https://geoffbrumfiel.net/
Jamie Withorne @jamiewithorne.bsky.social Nuclear weapons, international politics, and “”emerging”” technology.
Doctoral Research Fellow in Political Science, University of Oslo
LearnWMD Spreadsheet and Substack: www.jamiewithorne.com- K Katharina Peters @katpeters.bsky.social DER SPIEGEL
Nukes of Hazard @nukesofhazard.bsky.social Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Working to limit & eventually eliminate the nuclear threat through Congressional & public outreach.
https://armscontrolcenter.org/
UDMH @udmh.bsky.social I'm your friendly local batch of UDMH, looking for some dinitrogen tetroxide friends. Combust responsibly.
Dr. Mark P. Barry ☯︎ @drmarkpbarry.bsky.social Followed U.S.-DPRK relations for 36+ yrs. Met Kim Il Sung in 1994; my NGO met Kim Jong Il in 2005 on U.S.-DPRK ties. Assoc. Ed. Emer., Int'l J. on World Peace. Ph.D., IR, UVa; M.A., Nat. Sec. Studies, Georgetown U. 🇰🇷🇰🇵🇺🇸 📫 m.barry@hji.edu 🌐 mark-p-barry.com
Joon Hetland @joonhetland.bsky.social Here to learn from other people. Posts are mainly for news scrapping.- A Aidan Foster-Carter @aidanfc.bsky.social 56 years as Korea-watcher & sociologist. Hon. fellow Leeds University, also freelance. Heaven in Devon.
Rob York @rjamesyork.bsky.social Think tanker, Korean history PhD, shill for Big Competency and purveyor of snark. 
Korea Pro @koreapro.bsky.social Daily analysis on South Korea's foreign policy, politics and the economy. Produced by the team behind @nknewsorg.
Malcolm Davis @drmalcolmdavis.bsky.social Australian Defence and Space Policy Analyst based in Canberra with ASPI. Interested in space policy, defence and national security issues, strategic policy issues, international relations, and personal interests include astronomy and electronic music. 
Eric Foley @revericfoley.bsky.social CEO and Co-Founder of Voice of the Martyrs Korea
Robin Christopher Brehm @rcbrehm.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Vienna | Vice-Director at https://ecnk.univie.ac.at | Humanitarian aid and development assistance in East Asia
Sofia Ribeiro-Lemos @sofialsribeiro.bsky.social Phd Candidate Political Science & International Relations at University of Minho, PT • Research interests in East Asia; the US presence in the region; Memory, Identity, and Narrative analysis; with a dash of Portuguese politics • PT+EN
Nick Kodama @nickkodama.bsky.social PhD candidate at Georgetown | Researching nukes, IR, Japan, East Asia | Also posting photos of my cat and food.
James Oaten @jamesoaten.bsky.social North Asia correspondent for Australian Broadcasting Corporation, based in Tokyo, covering Japan 🇯🇵+ Koreas 🇰🇷🇰🇵. Previously India 🇮🇳 for Sth Asia. Opinions = my own, not ABC, retweets ≠ endorsements.
John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social foreign policy, international peace and security, nuclear weapons, antiquity
Words: Nation, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, NK News, US Institute of Peace, New Republic, elsewhere
seniores tollunt omnia
Dr Tereza Novotna @terezaanovotna.bsky.social Czech-EUropean academic
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social; DAAD/AGI Fellow @amgerinst.bsky.social; fmr @NATODef_College; fellow @europeum.bsky.social, @9dashline.com @PacificForum. 🇪🇺 foreign policy in🇰🇷🇰🇵& IndoPac
Asia-Pacific Leadership Network @apln.network A network of political, military, diplomatic and thought leaders in the Asia-Pacific working to address security challenges and eliminate nuclear weapons risks.
Célio Fioretti @celiofioretti.bsky.social Journaliste correspondant en Corée @rfi.bsky.social @LaCroix
Kangkyu Lee @violnalci.bsky.social PhD in International Studies. Research Fellow at KIDA(Korea Institute for Defense Analyses). Student of IR, Chinese PLA, South Korea's NDS, and big fan of webtoons. Opinions are my own.
@tongfi-kim.bsky.social @tongfi-kim.bsky.social https://www.brussels-school.be/team/kim-tongfi
Francesca Frassineti @frafrassineti.bsky.social Non-Resident Fellow at Asaninst & ispionline | Teaching at
Ca'Foscari University of Venice | Research interests in Korean Politics and History, Defense and Security in East Asia | she/her | usual caveats apply
Heejung Chung @heejungchung.bsky.social Professor of Work&Employment &Director of the King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership at KCL, views my own
Interests Flexible Working, digitalisation/future of work, labour market (gender/race) inequalities, welfare state/gender role attitudes 한국인
Lokman Karadag, PhD @drlokmankaradag.bsky.social Ph.D. in Political Science | US-China Relations, Great Power Politics, DPRK, Nukes and Geopolitics, in East Asia and Pacific |
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DrLokmanKaradag/streams
Juhyun Lee @mariejhlee.bsky.social She, media savvy, Chelsea and Suwon Bluewings
Database Center for North Korean Human Rights @nkdb.bsky.social NKDB was established in 2003 to document human rights violations in North Korea and to provide justice for victims.
en.nkdb.org
Hans Schattle @hansschattle.bsky.social Political science professor @ Yonsei University
American in Seoul, South Korea
Democracy; citizenship; media; politics of East Asia, Europe and the United States
David Tully @poliscipunk.bsky.social Former State Department/INR Korea and Southeast Asia politics and public opinion analyst. @polisciatnu.bsky.social PhD.
Scrambler rambler 🏍️, coffee monster, K-popper, knowledge dropper.
Jon B. Wolfsthal @jonatomic.bsky.social Nuclear Fellow @ Pax Sapiens, former Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and State Department International Sec Advisory Board, CNAS Sr. Fellow, former National Security Council. No #manels, Yankees/Gunners.
Khang Vu @khangxvu.bsky.social Boston College visiting scholar and Ph.D. Korea & Vietnam watcher.
Paul Kerry @iampaulkerry.bsky.social Copy editor for The Korea Herald. 
Reuters @reuters.com 
Min Jin Lee @minjinlee.bsky.social New York State Author Laureate 2025-2027. Writer. New Yorker. Late Bloomer.
www.minjinlee.com
Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social Assistant Professor at William & Mary.
www.eunajo.com
Victor Cha @victordcha.bsky.social Georgetown Professor, author, former USG, CSIS Geopolitics President, long-suffering Giants and hopeful Knicks aficionado.
Darcie Draudt-Véjares @darciedraudt.bsky.social Korea Studies Fellow in the Asia Program @carnegieendowment.org Researches Korean Peninsula politics, economy, and security. https://www.darciedraudt.com
Soyoung Lee @soyounglee.bsky.social Assistant Professor @Yale || Studying International Relations with a focus on territorial conflicts, rivalries, and nationalism
https://www.soyoungleeresearch.com
Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social Stanton Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Author of ‘THE NEW NUCLEAR AGE’ (Polity) & ‘KIM JONG UN AND THE BOMB’ (Hurst/Oxford)
Subscribe to my newsletter (Nukesletter): https://panda.substack.com/
Hans Kristensen @nukestrat.bsky.social Director, Nuclear Information Project, Federation of American Scientists. Tracking nuclear arsenals, co-author of Nuclear Notebook, SIPRI Yearbook. Opinions my own.
Website: https://fas.org/initiative/nuclear-information-project/
Decker Eveleth @dexeve.bsky.social PRC and DPRK strategic forces analyst with CNA. BA Reed College, MA Middlebury Institute. NSF GRFP. 
Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social Open Source Analysis of ballistic missiles, nuclear weapons, BMD, DPRK, & PRC.
Vice President of Nuclear and Technology Security Programs, Exiger.
Making podcasts over at https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/
All opinions my own.
Eunji Kim @eunjikim.bsky.social Media scholar | Assistant Professor of Political Science @Columbia | Author of The American Mirage (PUP 2025) | Host of Media Effects Empricial Workshop (MEEW)
Sunghun Lim @sunghunlim.bsky.social Economist | Assistant Professor and Director of LSU Global Value Chains Research Program at Louisiana State University | 2025 FarmFoundation Fellow
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/limsunghun
Hannah Kim @thisishannahkim.bsky.social Philosophy professor, Univ of Arizona 🌵 executive team at SEP 👩💻 thinking about fiction, poetry, music, movies, time, VR, AI & East Asian thought 🇰🇷🇰🇵 freelancer for philosophy, arts & culture ✌️
www.hannahkimphilosophy.com
Martyn Williams @martynw.bsky.social North Korea-focused journalist/researcher at www.38North.org and NorthKoreaTech. Senior Fellow, Stimson Center. On air as KJ6SDF. UK to US via Japan.
Minwoo Jung @minwoojung.bsky.social Sociologist at Loyola University Chicago
Raphael Rashid @koryodynasty.bsky.social Seoul-based freelance journalist.
라파엘 라시드 | 프리랜서 기자 | '우리가 보지 못한 대한민국' 저자 | 서울 거주. raphael@rashid.kr
Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social 🎓 Assistant Professor, Leiden University. 👨🔧Techno-optimist.
🏠 https://scdenney.net/
Jinsook Kim @jinsookkim.bsky.social Feminist media scholar | Assistant professor, Media Studies, Emory University | Writing a book about digital media, online misogyny, and feminist activism in South Korea | she/her | Views my own
www.jinsookkim.com
Joel Atkinson @joelatkinson.bsky.social Researching and teaching Northeast Asian international politics in Seoul. Opinions my own. joel.p.atkinson@gmail.com
CedarBough T. Saeji @thekpopprof.bsky.social human- a professor of #Korean and East Asian Studies. Research on performing arts (traditional mask dance dramas, K-pop and hip-hop), media, museums, tourism... #kpop #kdramas 한/영. 합기도, cycling, food, coffee 
Hyunsu Yim @hyunsuinseoul.bsky.social Correspondent for Reuters based in Barcelona. Previously in Seoul.
Josh Smith @joshjonsmith.bsky.social Reuters Senior Correspondent covering North and South Korea
Mark Fitzpatrick @marktfitz.bsky.social Grandpa. Ex-expat in UK. Former State Dept.
Tamar Herman @tamarherman.com Writer. K-pop & ent biz reporter. Author. She/Her. Published in Billboard, NME, Forbes, Variety, & many more. Have a day job, will not be here 24/7 because I love myself more than I love engagement bait.
Newsletter: Notesonkpop.com.
Benjamin R. Young @dubstepindprk.bsky.social North Korea analyst, prof of security studies & researcher of dictatorships. Wrote a book in 2021 on 🇰🇵-3rd World ties. Most importantly: dad & husband. Views my own.
https://benjaminryoung.weebly.com/
Jenny Town @jennytown.bsky.social Korea specialist | Senior Fellow, Stimson Center | Co-founder & Director, 38 North | Director, Korea Program | Associate Fellow of SAIS Foreign Policy Institute
www.38North.org
Kristi Govella @kristigovella.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Oxford
Japan Chair, CSIS
economics x security x governance in the Indo-Pacific and beyond
all views my own | RT ≠ endorsement
www.kristigovella.com
Colin Zwirko @colinzwirko.bsky.social Analyst at NK News / NK Pro, investigations and analysis about North Korea and satellite imagery, state media, military, Kim family developments etc.
https://www.nknews.org/content_author/colin-zwirko
Edward Goldring @edwardgoldring.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at University of Melbourne. Comparative authoritarianism, elite politics, and North Korea. A political science account with some sport 🟡🟢
John Nilsson-Wright @jnilssonwright.bsky.social Fuji Bank Professor of Japanese Politics & the International Relations of East Asia, Cambridge; Head, Japan and Koreas Programme,
@CamGeopolitics , University of Cambridge; Vice-Master, Darwin College, Cambridge
Sung Eun Kim @sungeunkim.bsky.social political scientist @ korea univ.
Jess Taylor @jesstaylor.bsky.social Princeton International Security PhDCandidate| @ACscowcroft nonres fellow; former Senior Advisor to @UnderSecT, US Forces🇰🇷🇵🇰&EUCOM|Personal acct
Joel Petersson Ivre 유엘 @joelivre.bsky.social 🇸🇪 in 🇰🇷 | "Yoo-el" | Senior Policy Fellow at Asia-Pacific Leadership Network | Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament | Shilling for Big Disarma | views mine and not to be taken too seriously | same id on the Old Place
Jamie Doucette @jamiedoucette.bsky.social Reader in Human Geography @ University of Manchester. Author of The Postdevelopmental State: Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea (Michigan: 2024, OA). Co-Editor: Developmentalist Cities? (Brill/Haymarket 2019). North sea surfer
Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social Professor, poet, scholar, parent
Work on global 19th c. lit, romanticism, Asian American lit, K-culture 🇰🇷, and creative writing
Books: Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation, Body Facts: Poems
www.joeyskim.com
Joseph Seeley @josephaseeley.bsky.social assoc prof @UVA_History. Specialist in 20th century Korea, Japanese Empire, and East Asian environments. Author of Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria (Open-access link: https://tinyurl.com/3susuy49)
Tom Phuong Le @tomphuongle.bsky.social Associate Professor of Politics at Pomona College. Author of Japan's Aging Peace: Pacifism and Militarism in the Twenty-First Century (Columbia University Press). http://cup.columbia.edu/book/japans-aging-peace/9780231199797
Chad O'Carroll @chadocl.bsky.social Founder of NK News/NK Pro and Korea Risk Group. From London, based in Seoul. Drum and bass music aficionado.