Category: U.S.-Korea Alliance and Relationship

Chad O’Carroll is the founder of NK News/NK Pro and related holding company Korea Risk Group. In addition to being the group’s CEO, O’Carroll is a frequent writer and commentator about the Koreas, having written about the two nations since 2010. He has visited the DPRK multiple times, worked and lived in Washington, D.C. with a focus on peninsula issues, and lived in the ROK since 2016.

Jeongmin Kim is a Correspondent at NK News and Editorial Director at KOREA PRO, based in Seoul. Kim covers inter-Korean relations and North and South Korean foreign and military affairs. Kim has covered the 2022 ROK presidential election on the ground, and prior to joining NK News, she worked for the CSIS Korea Chair in Washington D.C. and Reuters news agency’s Seoul bureau.

Shreyas Reddy is the Lead Correspondent at NK News, based in Seoul. He previously worked as a researcher at BBC Monitoring, where his work focused on news and key people and organizations from the Korean Peninsula, Japan, Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

Colin Zwirko is a Senior Analytic Correspondent for NK News based in Seoul. He joined the company in 2018 after receiving a master’s degree in international security and foreign policy from South Korea’s Yonsei University.

Kelly Kasulis Cho is a breaking news reporter and editor at The Washington Post’s Seoul hub. She has been reporting on North and South Korea for eight years, since the days of former President Park Geun-hye’s impeachment and the whirlwind of tension and diplomacy between President-elect Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. She has covered the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the coronavirus pandemic, South Korean elections, the tragic 2022 Itaewon Halloween crowd crush, the stabbing of Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung, the 2025 Jeju Air plane crash and more. She also recently covered the final moments of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange’s years-long legal battle and his path to freedom from a U.S. courthouse in Saipan. Previously, Kelly was a staff editor at The New York Times, the managing editor of NK News and NK Pro and a freelance foreign correspondent covering the Koreas.

Daniel C. Sneider is a lecturer in international policy at Stanford’s Ford Dorsey Master’s in International Policy and a lecturer in East Asian Studies at Stanford. His own research is focused on current U.S. foreign and national security policy in Asia and on the foreign policy of Japan and Korea. Since 2017, he has been based partly in Tokyo where he is working on a diplomatic history of the creation and management of the U.S. security alliances with Japan and South Korea during the Cold War. Sneider contributes regularly to the leading Japanese publication Toyo Keizai and is a Non-resident Distinguished Fellow at the Korea Economic Institute where he writes regularly for the Peninsula blog. Sneider is the former Associate Director for Research at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford and directed the Divided Memories and Reconciliation project on wartime historical memory in East Asia. Prior to coming to Stanford, Sneider was a long-time foreign correspondent. Sneider served as national/foreign editor of the Mercury News. From 1990 to 1994, he was the Moscow bureau chief of the Christian Science Monitor, covering the end of Soviet Communism and the collapse of the Soviet Union. From 1985 to 1990, he was Tokyo correspondent for the Monitor, covering Japan and Korea. Prior to that he was a correspondent in India, covering South and Southeast Asia. Sneider has a BA in East Asian history from Columbia University and an MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Andrew Yeo is a senior fellow and the SK-Korea Foundation Chair at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Asia Policy Studies. He is also a professor of politics at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Yeo is co-editor of the forthcoming book “Great Power Competition and Overseas Bases: Chinese, Russian, and American Force Posture in the 21st Century” (Brookings Institution Press, forthcoming). He is also the author or co-editor of five other books including  “Asia’s Regional Architecture: Alliances and Institutions in the Pacific Century” (Stanford University Press, 2019), “State, Society, and Markets in North Korea” (Cambridge University Press 2021), “North Korean Human Rights: Activists and Networks” (Cambridge University Press 2018); “Activists, Alliances, and Anti-U.S. Base Protests” (Cambridge University Press 2011); and “Living in an Age of Mistrust: An Interdisciplinary Study of Declining Trust in Contemporary Society and Politics and How to Get it Back” (Routledge Press 2017). Yeo received his doctorate in government from Cornell University, and bachelor’s in psychology and international studies from Northwestern University.