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American University
Email: beckdonga@hotmail.com
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Inter-Korean
Expertise
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- North and South Korean affairs
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- United States foreign policy in Asia
Biography
Peter M. Beck teaches at American University and writes a monthly column for Weekly Chosun and The Korea Herald. Perviously, he was the executive director of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and directed the International Crisis Group's Northeast Asia Project in Seoul. He was also the Director of Research and Academic Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute in Washington. He has served as a member of the Ministry of Unification's Policy Advisory Committee and as an adjunct faculty member at American, Ewha, and Georgetown and Yonsei universities.
He also has been a columnist for the Korean daily Donga Ilbo, an instructor at the University of California at San Diego, a translator for the Korea Foundation, and a staff assistant at Korea's National Assembly and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has published over 100 academic and short articles in four languages, given over 200 speeches in English and Korean, and conducted interviews with the world's leading media outlets. He received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, completed the Korean language program at Seoul National University, and conducted his graduate studies at U.C. San Diego's Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies.
Contact Information
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Email: beckdonga@hotmail.com
Telephone: (202) 870-2641
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