Jung Pak

Jung H. Pak has held senior positions at the Central Intelligence Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and is now a senior fellow and the SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies at Brookings Institution’s Center for East Asia Policy Studies where she focuses on the national security challenges facing the United States and East Asia, including North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) capabilities. Prior to her work in national security, Pak taught history at Hunter College in New York City and studied in South Korea as a Fulbright Scholar. She has written for and appeared in numerous publications, interviews, documentaries, and podcasts and writes for The New York Times, The Financial Times and Foreign Affairs, among others.