Yesun Kim @yesunkim.bsky.social M.A. Candidate in Asian Studies, Georgetown SFS
CSIS Economic Security and Technology Department @est.csis.org Examining the most pressing issues facing the United States and its partners in sustaining economic and technological advantages essential to prosperity, security, and resilience.
Navin Girishankar @navingirishankar.bsky.social President of the CSIS Economic Security and Technology Department. Lead bipartisan team on economic and technology policies and their role in national security. Host of Betting on America podcast. 
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
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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
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Christopher Powers @powersglobal.bsky.social International Educator, Assistant Vice President for International Initiatives, Towson University, Baseball Fan, He/him, All views my own
Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social Covering Northeast Asia at The Washington Post. Mom to two needy cats & a rambunctious golden retriever. michelle.lee@washpost.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
Heesoo Jang @heesoojang.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Media Law and Ethics, UMass-Amherst
Proud UNC J-school PhD alumna
heesoojang.com
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)
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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
Minseon Ku @minseonku.bsky.social International relations-diplomacy-international security.
🐿️ watcher striving to be a whisperer
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 🟡🟢
Karl Friedhoff @kfriedhoff.bsky.social 
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
Benjamin A. Engel @benjaminaengel.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Korean Studies at Dankook University. Research interests: Korean modern history, US-Korea relations, democracy and human rights
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.
Katie Stallard @katiestallard.bsky.social Writing about Russia, China and authoritarian politics for the New Statesman. Author of Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia, and North Korea (OUP). Former Wilson Center fellow. Based in DC. Previously Beijing and Moscow.
Sangsin Lee @sslee.bsky.social Political Scientist. Ph. D.
Korea Institute for National Unification
KINU Unification Survey.
Daniel A. Pinkston, Ph.D. @dpinkston.bsky.social KCPC expert advisor, IR scholar, Yonsei University, Troy University, NE Asian security and political economy, WMD nonproliferation. USAF veteran and VFW member. Former state powerlifting champion and casual judo player. Cat man and life-long Laker fan.
Dan Sneider @dcsneider.bsky.social Lecturer, East Asian Studies and International Policy, Stanford University
Former foreign correspondent, The Christian Science Monitor
Former editor and syndicated columnist, The San Jose Mercury News
Jenna Gibson @jennargibson.bsky.social Assistant Director, Notre Dame International Security Center. PhD in Political Science focused on diplomatic rhetoric, public and cultural diplomacy, and U.S.-Korea relations. 2x Fulbright Korea alum. K-pop researcher and fan. Pfp from Taybee on Picrew.
Sheena Chestnut Greitens @sheenagreitens.bsky.social Associate Professor at UT-Austin. I study authoritarian politics, security, & East Asia, especially China and Korea.
Non-resident scholar at Carnegie Endowment & U.S. Army War College, editor of the Texas National Security Review. Views my own.
Myunghee Lee @immyungheelee.bsky.social Assistant Prof. at JMC, Michigan State University. Previously at the University of Copenhagen. Studies authoritarian politics, democratization, protest, security, Korea and China. https://myungheelee.com
Kim Tong-hyung @kimtonghyung.bsky.social Covering the Koreas for The Associated Press since 2014. Opinions are mine. Reach me at tkim@ap.org
Lindsey Miller @lindseymiller87.bsky.social Author of North Korea: Like Nowhere Else l Freelance MD l Previously @theRSC @NationalTheatre l Composer l Writer & Photographer 🏴 Based in 🇹🇭
www.lindseymiller.co.uk
Dongil Lee @dongillee.bsky.social Assistant Professor at KDI School | NYU PhD | Political Economy of Development | sub-Saharan Africa | dongillee.com
Natalia Slavney @nslavney.bsky.social Research Associate with @fsi.stanford.edu’s @aparc.stanford.edu Follows #ROK, #DPRK, 🏳️🌈 & human rights.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-slavney/
Sojeong Lee @sojeonglee.bsky.social Political scientist at the University of Tennessee. Hawkeye alumni. International conflict, water and natural resources, & security in East Asia and the Indo-Pacific. 
Rita Durão @ritadurao.bsky.social PhD candidate in International Relations at NOVA University of Lisbon, PT • Researcher IPRI • Area studies, focus on security of East Asia, North Korea, nuclear weapons and identity politics • Also interested in EU foreign and security policy to the region
👓 Byunghwan 'Ben' Son @textvulture.bsky.social - Associate Prof. of Global Affairs. GMU
- Director. Korean Studies Center. GMU
- 🌐: https://textvulture.github.io/
- Political Economy. Politics in Asia.
#Yonsei #Mizzou #ROKAF #KiaTigers #GSW #AKPS #KPSC #parenting
Andray Abrahamian @andray.bsky.social 
Shreyas Reddy @shreyaskreddy.bsky.social Seoul Correspondent, NK News- J John Kuk @johnskuk.bsky.social
Six Wang @sixwang.bsky.social History of early modern Korea/ Choson Korea
此道沈霾多歷年，喜君占斗斸龍泉。我學淵明貧至骨，君豈有意師無弦。蕭灑自非侯爵命，道人胸中有水鏡。
Sokeel Park @sokeel.bsky.social Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) South Korea Country Director 
Dave Kang @daveckang.bsky.social Going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm!
(Also: USSF "National B" license, when "A" was as high as it went.)
https://www.daveckang.net/
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs 허수진 @jkwondobbs.bsky.social mom, ajumma, poet @White Pine Press @hochroth Verlag @PalmArt Press, senior poetry editor @agnimagazine.bsky.social, translator, professor and assoc. dean, more at jkwondobbs.com
Pilar / 삘라르 @pilarm.bsky.social Photographer, writer
Korean Studies / Photography Studies
Madrid
SP/EN/한
MiCorea @micorea.bsky.social & VesAsia @vesasia.bsky.social
Colin Crooks @colincrooks.bsky.social British Ambassador to South Korea since February 2022. Previously Ambassador in North Korea. Dungannon Cambridge London Aix-en-Provence Recklinghausen Seoul Washington Pyongyang Jakarta Beijing
Peter Ward @pward89.bsky.social Research Fellow at the Sejong Institute, North Korea watcher.
Jack Greenberg (그린버그 잭) @jackwgreenberg.bsky.social Independent Researcher and Freelance Writer. Former Global 🇰🇷 Scholar. 고려대학교 and McGill Alumnus. Currently working on contested histories, memory sites, and Korea’s truth commission.
📧 jwgreenberg@outlook.com
jwgreenberg.substack.com
Ifang Bremer @ifangbremer.bsky.social Journalist and photographer covering human rights, spying, the escapee community and more.
Jae-Hee Jung @jaeheejung.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ricepolisci.bsky.social
Website: https://jaeheejung.com
Books: https://bit.ly/4qFnwCh, https://bit.ly/3VQHQDs
Frank Aum @frankaum.bsky.social Senior Expert on Northeast Asia, U.S. Institute of Peace; former senior advisor on Korea, Defense Department 2011-2017
Sanghyun Han @sanghyun.bsky.social Ph.D ing @NunnSchool @GeorgiaTech | Eco Statecraft, Emerging Tech, Eco-Sec Nexus | Prev w/ @SNU @CUK🇰🇷 @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social @nbr.org
https://sanghyun-ir.github.io
Irhe Sohn @irhesohn.bsky.social I'm a historian of East Asian film and media (Korea focus) at Smith College.
hieyoon kim @0absentia.bsky.social write and teach about cinema, media, and politics; author of Celluloid Democracy (UC Press, 2023); prof at Brown- H Ha Eun Choi @haeunchoi.bsky.social research fellow @uni potsdam🇩🇪 & phd candidate @michigan state🇺🇸| Int’l orgs, human rights, gender, trade | haeunchoi.com
Ji-Hyun Ahn @jihyunahn.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Global Media Studies @ U. of Washington Tacoma | Author of Mixed-Race Politics and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in South Korean Media (2018) | Currently writing a book about anti-Korean sentiment in postcolonial East Asia | she/her
Jae Won Edward Chung @jawoch.bsky.social Modern Korean literature & visual culture, Rutgers University, jwechung.com
Caroline Kearney @carolinekearney.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Korean Studies at Yonsei University. US-Asia Grand Strategy Predoctoral Fellow at USC. Interests: US - DPRK relations, DPRK foreign policy, ROK domestic politics, culture and society.
Jiyoung Ko @jiyoungko.bsky.social IR @ Korea University
Study nuclear politics and nationalism
jiyoungko.org
Donna Kwon @hallyulikedonna.bsky.social Korean/Asian/American music and culture aca-fan/multi-stan. Professor of ethnomusicology. Author of Stepping in the Madang (2024, Wesleyan) and trying desperately to maintain hope in humanity. CSIS US-Korea NextGen Scholar 24-25.
Jeong Hyun Kim @jeonghyunkim.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Yonsei University. Political Science.
Luis (이수•利修) @yasanggok.bsky.social 남미에서 한국학을 배우는 것입니다 / Korean Studies in Latin America. 토픽 2급. 漢字와 漢文의 歷史는 관심이 많습니다.
🗣️ : Castellano, Português, English, 한국어, 普通话, 日本語.
Lami Kim @lamikim.bsky.social Professor at Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Nonresident Fellow at Eurasia Group, and Adjunct Professor of International Relations at the Univ. of Hawaii 
Yeji Chung @yejichung.bsky.social Korea Analyst at the American Enterprise Institute's Foreign & Defense Policy, Coalition Defense of Taiwan. Views Mine
Oskar Pietrewicz @opietrewicz.bsky.social Senior Analyst at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)
Korean Peninsula, East Asia
Private opinions
Gidong Kim @gidongkim3.bsky.social Korea program & SNAPL postdoc at Stanford University | Comparative political behavior & economy, nationalism, redistribution, migration | Korea/East Asia
Curtis Melvin @curtismelvin.bsky.social Tracking developments around the world.
Remco Breuker 🟥 @remcobreuker.bsky.social Koreanist/historicus/schrijver/vertaler | (N-)Korea/history/human rights/Prof Leiden 한국/고려/북한/역사/레이덴대학교수|| #WOinActie| platenwasser | serie-Big in Korea | boek- De wereld volgens Noord-Korea | https://www.haagschcollege.nl/podcast/k-pod
William Gallo @williamgallo.bsky.social Europe/Mideast Bureau Chief for Stars and Stripes, an independent newspaper by and for the US military
www.williamwgallo.com
Britt Robinson @brittrobinson.bsky.social 🇰🇷Korea-focused Gender Advocate. ✍🏽 Founder and CEO of #&Daughters. Board Member at National Association for Black Engagement with Asia #NABEA.
Inbok Rhee @inbok.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Studies, Yonsei University, South Korea
Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫 Korean film, pop culture, theatre & performance @arizonastateuni.bsky.social
📚 Beyond the Sewol (U of Hawaii Press, Sept 2025) & K-Pop Fandom (@uofmpress.bsky.social, Feb 2026)
📧 areumjeong@gmail.com
John G. Grisafi, PhD @johnggrisafi.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow in Korean Studies | Korean & Asian religion, religion & modernity, discursive study & epistemology of religion, politics of religion, religion & media, religion & place, historiography/memory of religion, marginal religions