Dealing with a Nuclear North Korea

Join ACIR in hearing the details presented by one of the US government’s top experts on North Korea. While the West has been understandably focused on Ukraine and Taiwan, North Korea has unleashed 13 extensive hypersonic, underwater, and ground missile tests in 2022 alone; a number with the capability of striking targets in the American homeland. Last April, Kim Jong-un made clear in a 50th PRA anniversary that the US was his primary target.

At this event, Dr. Lami Kim will speak extensively about North Korea and its current status relative to other issues centered in the East and South China Seas.

About Dr. Lami Kim

Dr. Lami is an Assistant Professor in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College. She is also serving as a US-Korea NextGen Scholar as well as a Security and Statecraft Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Mansfield-Luce Asia Scholar, and an Adjunct Fellow at Pacific Forum.

Her research interests are all things nuclear, security issues in East Asia, emerging technologies and international security. Her work has appeared in The Washington Quarterly, Global Governance, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, War on the Rocks, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Bureau of Asian Research, Routledge, the National Interest, and the Diplomat. She has also provided commentaries regarding Asian security affairs to media outlets, such as Washington Post, Newsweek, Time magazine, Al-Jazeera, LA Times, and Voice of America, among others.

Dr. Kim has served as a research fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center, the Wilson Center, Pacific Forum, and the Stimson Center; as a Nuclear Scholar at CSIS; as a Visiting Fellow at Seoul National University; and also as a South Korean diplomat. She has taught at Harvard University, Boston College, and the University of Hong Kong. She holds a Ph.D. degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a Master’s degree from Harvard University.