Christopher Green Senior Consultant, Korean Peninsula Please submit all media inquiries to media@crisisgroup.org or call +32 (0) 2 536 00 71 Crisis Group Role Christopher Green leads Crisis Group's work on Korea, delivering timely analysis of inter-Korean, alliance and regional concerns. He worked for Crisis Group in an identical role from 2017-2019, then returned in 2021. Professional Background Christopher Green lectures on Korea at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Before joining Crisis Group, he spent more than a decade on the Korean Peninsula, first and foremost as manager of the international department of Daily NK, a media company that reports inside news from North Korea via a network of citizen journalists inside the country. He has published widely on North Korean politics, economy and culture over a period of more than 25 years, and is the translator of the memoir of Hwang Jang-yop, a senior North Korean official who defected to the South in 1997. Areas of Expertise Authoritarian rule and state collapse Korean Peninsula politics and media North Korean migration and resettlement Post-communist economic reform and transition Languages English Korean In The News 21 May 2022 I think the key question is if North Korea conducts another nuclear test, is that enough to persuade China and Russia to sign on to another Security Council resolution. NBC Christopher Green Senior Consultant, Korean Peninsula 13 May 2022 The [North Korean] missile tests are meant to signal business as usual, and to ensure that others keep North Korea at arm’s length while it copes with a crisis. Financial Times Christopher Green Senior Consultant, Korean Peninsula 22 Apr 2022 North Korea is attempting to pit South Korean advocates of engagement and advocates of containment against each other. Financial Times Christopher Green Senior Consultant, Korean Peninsula 14 Mar 2019 Any US government that is serious about making headway with NK in negotiations should be quietly funding info freedom activities as well. Twitter Christopher Green Senior Consultant, Korean Peninsula 28 Feb 2019 The @realDonaldTrump and @SecPompeo presser this afternoon was revealing, & seems to give contours of a path forward. For one thing, Trump emphasized productivity of disc... Twitter Christopher Green Senior Consultant, Korean Peninsula 28 Feb 2019 For the U.S., it would be politically unacceptable and a terrible idea to trade all economic sanctions for the dismantlement of Yongbyon, as Kim seems to have demanded. Reuters Christopher Green Senior Consultant, Korean Peninsula Latest Updates Commentary / Asia 13 May 2022 North Korea Policy under the New South Korean President: More Continuity than Change Commentary / Asia 02 March 2022 Making Sense of North Korea’s Spate of Missile Tests Q&A / Asia 10 January 2022 North Korea Plots a Course of “Heavy Agony” for 2022 Commentary / Asia 16 December 2021 Behind the Korean Peninsula “Arms Race” Q&A / United States 25 February 2019 All Eyes on Tangible Results from U.S.-North Korea Summit Commentary / Asia 18 September 2018 Getting the U.S. in Step with the Koreas’ Diplomatic Dance Also available in 简体中文 Load more