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Republic of Korea
Kyung Hwan Cho
Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Security Strategy Studies,
The Sejong Institute (ROK)
Kyung Hwan Cho joined Sejong Institute in the summer of 2017 as avisiting research fellow after the completion of a long journey as a senior
government officer in the field of national intelligence and foreign affairs
for more than 30 years of service. He is also a fellow at the Institute for
National Security Strategy (INSS) in Korea.
Kyung Hwan has Ph.D. (ABD) in public administration from Sung-kyunkwan University in 2018. He earned a MBA from KDI School in Seoul in2004 and a BA in public administration from Chung-Ang University in
1986.
His research focuses on national security, ROK-US relationship, and two
Koreas’ exchange and cooperation by way of participating in some projects
to assist policy engagements regarding North Korea issues throughCenter for East Asian Cooperation which is a part of the Sejong.

Ildo Hwang
Assistant Professor, Korea National Diplomatic Academy (ROK)
Dr. Ildo Hwang is Assistant Professor at the Korea National Diplomatic
Academy (KNDA). Before joining KNDA, he had worked as Staff Reporterand Research Fellow with the Dong-A Ilbo Media Group for 16 years, andperformed research projects at ISDP in Stockholm, Sweden as Visiting
Fellow.
Dr. Hwang holds a Ph.D. in International Politics from Yonsei University.
The dissertation dealt with strategic culture of North Korea and its
military development. He holds MA degree from University of North
Korean Studies, Seoul. Dr. Hwang also completed one-year course of
Russian

Linguistics

School,Far

Eastern

Federal

University(Дальневосточный федеральный университет) in Vladivostok, Russia.
He wrote two books about North Korean weapons of mass destruction andcountermeasures of South Korea and the U.S., under titles of Kim Jeong
Il Launched FEAR (2008) and The DNA of North Korean Military
Strategy (2013).

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Jungmin Kang
Independent Nuclear Analyst / Former chair of South Korea’s Nuclear
Safety and Security Commission (ROK)
Dr. Jungmin Kang was the chair of South Korea’s Nuclear Safety andSecurity Commission in 2018. Dr. Kang was a senior research fellow in
the Nuclear Program at NRDC’s Washington, DC office in 2015-2017.
Previously, Dr. Kang was a visiting professor at the Korea Advanced
Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, South Korea in
2011-2015. He holds a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from Tokyo
University in Japan, and completed his BS and MS in the Nuclear
Engineering Department of South Korea’s Seoul National University. Dr.
Kang has held previous positions at the Program on Science and Global
Security, Princeton University, the Center for International Security andCooperation (CISAC), Stanford University, and the School of Advanced
International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Kang is amember of the International Panel on Fissile Materials.

Jinwook Kim
Minister-Counselor at Embassy of the Republic of Korea (ROK)
He joined the Foreign Ministry in 1995 followed by foreign service at the
Korean Embassy in Japan as 1st Secretary, at the Korean Embassy inIndia as 1st Secretary, at the Korean Embassy in the US as Economic
Counsellor, at the Korean Consulate-General, Wuhan in China as Deputy
Consul-General and at the Korean Embassy in Pakistan as MinisterCounsellor. Up until 2012, his career was mainly focused on economic
affairs including the Korea-US FTA. Afterwards, he has been engaged inpolitical affairs as well. Now he is with the Korea National Diplomatic
Academy.

Joon Hyung Kim
Professor, Handong Global University (ROK)
Dr. Joon Hyung Kim is Professor of the International Studies Department,
Handong Global University. His areas of specialization and interests aretheories of international relations, Northeast Asian relations including
US-China, US-ROK, and North-South Korean relations. He was also
invited as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar to George Mason University,
Department of Public and International Affairs, USA and taught several
courses including US-Korea Relations and East Asian International

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Politics. He participated in the Presidential Committee for Evaluating
Roh Moo Hyun Government’s foreign policy. Since early 2007, Dr. Kim has
involved in the Korea Institute for Future Strategies (KIFS) as a Directorof Center for Diplomacy and Security. Since 2011, Dr. Kim has involved in
the Korea Peace Forum, another renowned network-based think-tank
specialized in the peace and unification issue on the Korean Peninsula,and became an executive director in 2013. Since 2015, Dr. Kim has been amember of Moon Jae In’s presidential election camp, where he consulted
and wrote major foreign policies. After Moon was elected, he joined theGovernment Transition Committee. Currently Dr. Kim is a member of the
Presidential Commission on Policy Planning (Security and Foreign Policy
Sub-committee). In addition to that, he belongs to Advisory Committees
to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministryof Unification, and the National Security Council.
Dr. Kim has published numerous research papers on US foreign policy,
North Korean nuclear issues, and so on. He has also published several
books on international relations in Northeast Asia.
Dr. Kim earned his Bachelor’s Degree at Yonsei University (1986), and
M.A. and Ph.D. at George Washington University.

Myon Woo Lee
Vice President, The Sejong Institute (ROK)
Currently Vice President, from June, 2018, and Senior Research Fellow of
the Sejong Institute.
B.A. from Seoul National University in international trade; M.A. and
Ph.D. degrees from the department of political science at Ohio State
University. Visiting Professor of Meiji Gakuin University in Japan from1999 to 2000; Vice President of the Sejong Institute from 2000 to 2001;
Visiting Professor of the Ohio State University from 2007 to 2008.
Ph.D. dissertation on Political Leadership and Policy Change in Japan(1994). Published a book, titled Populism in Japan: Why Japan Chose
Koizumi (2007) and compiled several volumes in Korean, including
Reforms of Japanese Welfare State (2007); The Collapse of 55-year Systemand the Changes of Politics in Japan (2005); A Study on the Japanese
Right (2000). Also articles on "Conservatism in Japanese Politics and Its
Influence on Security Policy," "Japan's Policy toward North Korea,""Making of Japan's New Security Policy: On the Influence of International

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Factors," and others.

Haksoon Paik
President, The Sejong Institute (ROK)
Dr. Haksoon Paik is President of the Sejong Institute in Korea. He
received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania
and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University.
He was formerly an advisor in various capacities to the Republic of Korea’s
Ministry of Unification, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and National
Assembly. He was the Executive Director of the Seoul-Washington Forum,a news commentator for the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), and acolumnist for major Korean national newspapers.
He has written extensively on North Korean domestic politics, interKorean relations, U.S.-North Korean relations, and North Korean nuclear
and missile issues. He is author of numerous books and monographs
written in Korean, including: Park Geun-hye Administration’s Policy on
North Korea and Unification: Comparison with Previous Administrations(2018), North Korean Politics in the Kim Jong Un Era, 2012-2014: Ideas,
Identities, and Structures (2015), The U.S.-North Korea Relations During
President Obama's Second Term, 2013-2014: Threat of the Use of Nuclear
Weapons and the Collapse of Relations (2014), and The History of Powerin North Korea: Ideas, Identities, and Structures (2010). His most recent
articles and book chapters in English include “Inside Kim Jong Un’s
Assertive Mind” (2017), “Kim Jong Un’s ‘Unitary Leadership’: Future
Policies and Our Choices” (2013), and “Changes and Continuities in InterKorean Relations” (2013).

Jongchul Park
Distinguished Research Fellow of Korea Institute for National
Unification (ROK)
Jongchul Park is a distinguished research fellow at the Korea Institutefor National Unification. He received his Ph. D. in political science from
Korea University, in Seoul, South Korea. He was a visiting scholar at
Harvard University in 1997, a visiting scholar at Tokyo University in
2007, and a visiting research fellow at Japan Institute for International
Affairs in 2007. His research areas cover inter-Korean relation,
unification policy, security and cooperation in Northeast Asia.

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Japan
Seiji Endo
Professor, Seikei University (Japan) / PSNA Member
Born in 1962, Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
Graduated from Politics Course, Faculty of Law, the University of Tokyoin 1986.
Lecturer on International Politics at Faculty of Law, Seikei University, in1991 and Professor in 2000. Senior Associate Member at St. Antony’s
College, Oxford University in 1995 and 2010, Visiting Researcher at
Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA, in 1996.
Vice-President of Seikei University in 2018 to the present. Researchinterests include theory of international politics, globalization andchanging governing structure of the world, hegemony and powertransition, security studies, peace studies. Published articles and bookson theory of international politics, globalization and international
relations theory, foreign and security policies of Japan, and East Asian
regional order. Editor in chief of 8 volume series, Security of Japan,
Iwanami-shoten publisher, 2014-2016

Satoshi Hirose
Vice Director, RECNA (Japan) / PSNA Member
Satoshi Hirose is a Professor of International Organizations and Nuclear
Disarmament, and also a Vice Director of the Research Center for Nuclear
Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA).
Before assuming the current post, he served for the UNDP, Ministry ofForeign Affairs and several universities and colleges. He is currently an
Associate Editor of 'Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament' (Taylor& Francis).

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Byungdug Jun
Professor, Nagasaki University (Japan)
Professor at the Department of Education (2009-2019) and a part-time
staff at the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki
University (RECNA). His previous positions were a full-time lecturer at
the Department of Engineering (1994-1999) after received his doctoral
degree of engineering (Remote Sensing) from the Nagasaki University;
Concurrently with a coordinator of remote sensing project at the PECK
Co. Ltd. (2000), Associate professor at the Department of Education (20012008); Session chair’s advisor of GISUP, international workshop (19992019).
Professor Jun has published more than 280 articles (in English andJapanese) covering the fields of engineering, environmental studies andpeace education. His recent co-authored books include environment
matter: The Yellow River, Water and Life (New Jersey and London: World
Scientific Publishing Co. Ltd., 2010), and peace matter: How to inherit the
memories of the war (Tokyo: Fuyoshobo Press, 2012 in Japanese) , How toFace Nuclear Threats (Tokyo: Horitsu Bunka Sha, 2018 in Japanese).
He is now very interested in peace education and related issues utilizing
information and communication technology with remote sensing and data
science.

Masakatsu Ota
Senior Feature Writer Section, Kyodo News / Visiting Professor, RECNA(Japan)Masakatsu Ota is a Senior and Editorial writer at Kyodo News, a position
he has held since April 2009. He reports on a variety of nuclear issues,
non-proliferation and the U.S.-Japan security relationship. Ota is also
Visiting Professor of Waseda University and Nagasaki University as well
as a regular commentator for TV Asahi.
Ota is the author of eight Japanese books on nuclear and security issues.
He recently published Nichibei Kaku Mitsuyaku no Zenbo (The Whole
Picture of the U.S.-Japan Secret Nuclear Deal) and Nichibei Kaku Domei(US-Japan ‘Nuclear’ Alliance).
Ota joined Kyodo in April 1992 as a staff writer. After joining Kyodo, he
worked as a correspondent in Hiroshima, Osaka and Takamatsu. In 2001,

Participant Profiles (as of May 22, 2019)he became a political correspondent, covering the Prime Minister’s officeand the Foreign Ministry of Japan. From April 2003 until March 2007,
Ota became a Washington correspondent. In Washington, he covered a
range of issues related to U.S. politics, security and nuclear policies, aswell as U.S.-Japan relations and non-proliferation issues.
Ota was awarded the Vaughn-Uyeda Prize in April 2007 for his
investigations into the history of the U.S.-Japan security relationship, thehistory of the Second World War and his series of scoops on U.S. nuclear
policy. He was also awarded the Peace Cooperative Journalist Fund Prizein December 2009 for his investigative reports into the secret U.S.-Japan
nuclear deal during the Cold War.
Ota received a B.A. in political science from Waseda University. He wasawarded the Fulbright Scholarship in 1999 and conducted research at the
University of Maryland from 1999 to 2000. He received a Doctorate fromthe National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo in 2010 for his
research on U.S.-Japan nuclear policy.

Tatsujiro Suzuki
Vice Director, RECNA (Japan) / PSNA Member
Tatsujiro SUZUKI (Tokyo, Japan) is a Vice Director, Professor of ResearchCenter for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA),
Japan. Before joining RECNA, he was a Vice Chairman of Japan Atomic
Energy Commission (JAEC) of the Cabinet office from January 2010 toApril 2014. Until then, he was an Associate Vice President of the Central
Research Institute of Electric Power Industry in Japan (1996-2009) and
Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy, University ofTokyo (2005-009), an Associate Director of MIT’s International Programon Enhanced Nuclear Power Safety from 1988-1993 and a Research
Associate at MIT’s Center for International Studies (1993-95). He is now
a member of Advisory Board of Parliament’s Special Committee on
Nuclear Energy since June 2017. He is also a Council Member of Pugwash
Conferences on Science and World Affairs (2007-09 and from 2014~). Dr.
Suzuki has a PhD in nuclear engineering from Tokyo University (1988).

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Masao Tomonaga
Visiting Professor, RECNA (Japan) / PSNA Co-Chair
He is Professor Emeritus of Nagasaki University and Director Emeritus,
Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki, Atomic Bomb Hospital. He was born in1943 in Nagasaki City, where he encountered the second atomic bombing
at 2.7 km from the hypocenter. After he graduated from Nagasaki
University School of Medicine and became a physician, he majoredhematology and radiation injury medicine. He found evidences thatatomic bomb radiation caused life-long bodily effects and induced
leukemia and cancers. He reported these findings at the 1st International
Conference on Humanitarian Aspects of Nuclear Weapons held in Oslo in2013 and also presented a research study on the various effects of the useof nuclear weapons at the 2nd Conference held at Nayarit, Mexico in 2014.
He has been Chairman of Organizing Committee of the Nagasaki Global
Citizen’s Assembly for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons since 2009.
Since 2017 he has been a member of Eminent Persons Group (EPG) Of
Foreign Ministry.

Hiromichi Umebayashi
Visiting Professor, Former Director of RECNA (Japan) / PSNA Member
UMEBAYASHI, Hiromichi is Visiting Professor, former Director of
Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University(RECNA) and a member of Panel for Peace and Security in Northeast Asia
(PSNA). He is also Special Advisor, former President and Founder ofPeace Depot Inc., Japan. He is a Ph.D. holder in the field of Applied
Physics from Tokyo University. After resigning from teaching in auniversity in 1980, he became a fulltime researcher and campaigner forpeace, disarmament, and human rights issues. He is the Chief-editor of
the 2015 RECNA Report “Proposal: A Comprehensive Approach to a
Northeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone.” Among his recent books are
The U.S. Forces Japan (2017, Iwanami-Shinsho), Nuclear Weapon-Free
Zones (2012) from Iwanami Shoten, Japan and its updated Korean version(2014) from Booksea Publishing Co., ROK.

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Fumihiko Yoshida
Director, RECNA (Japan) / PSNA Member
Fumihiko Yoshida was Deputy Director of the Editorial Board of the Asahi
Shimbun. He served as a member of the Advisory Panel of Experts on
Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation for Japan’s Minister of
Foreign Affairs. He is Editor-in-Chief of J-PAND (Journal for Peace andNuclear Disarmament) edited by RECNA and published by Taylor &Francis. He has a PhD in International Public Policy from Osaka
University (2007).

Other Countries
Toby Field Dalton
Co-Director, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment forInternational Peace (USA)
Toby Dalton is co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie
Endowment. An expert on nonproliferation and nuclear energy, his work
addresses regional security challenges and the evolution of the global
nuclear order.
Dalton’s research and writing focuses in particular on South Asia andEast Asia. He is author (with George Perkovich) of Not War, Not Peace?
Motivating Pakistan to Prevent Cross-Border Terrorism (Oxford
University Press, 2016), which provides in-depth analysis of the conflict
spectrum in South Asia. He also wrote (with Michael Krepon) A Normal
Nuclear Pakistan and “Beyond Incrementalism: Rethinking Approaches
to CBMs and Stability in South Asia.” He co-edited Perspectives on an
Evolving Nuclear Order and wrote “South Korea Debates Nuclear
Options,” (with Byun Sunggee and Lee Sang-Tae) and “South Korea’s
Search for Nuclear Sovereignty” (with Alexandra Francis).
From 2002 to 2010, Dalton served in a variety of high-level positions at

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the U.S. Department of Energy, including acting director for the Office of
Nuclear Safeguards and Security and senior policy adviser to the Office ofNonproliferation and International Security. He also established and led
the department’s office at the U.S. embassy in Pakistan from 2008-2009.
Dalton previously served as professional staff member to the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, a Luce Scholar at the Institute for Far
Eastern Studies in Seoul, a research associate at the National Bureau of
Asian Research, and a project associate for the Carnegie Nuclear Policy
Program.

Michael Eric Hamel-Green
Emeritus Professor, Victoria University Melbourne (Australia) / PSNA
Co-ChairMichael Hamel-Green is Emeritus Professor in the College of Arts andEducation, Victoria University Melbourne, Australia, and former Dean ofArts Faculty Victoria University. His research has focused on regional
nuclear-weapon-free-zones, nuclear nonproliferation, and multilateralnegotiations. He is the editorial board chair of Global Change, Peace, andSecurity; and convener of the Curatorial Committee of the Australian
LivingPeace

Museum(livingpeacemuseum.org.au).

His

recentpublications include: The 2017 Nuclear Ban Treaty: a new path to nuclear
disarmament (co-edited with J.Camilleri and F.Yoshida)(Routledge 2018);“The implications of the 2017 UN Nuclear Prohibition Treaty for existingand proposed nuclear-weapon-free zones”, in Global Change, Peace &Security, 2018, DOI: 10.1080/14781158.2018.1438387; “Cooperating
Regionally, Denuclearizing Globally: Multilateral Nuclear-Weapon-FreeZone Initiatives” in Knopf, J. (ed) International Cooperation on WMD
Nonproliferation (University of Georgia Press, Athens, 2016); “Australia’s
Disarmament

Dilemma:

NuclearUmbrellaor

Nuclear-Free”(International Law and Policy Institute, 2014); “Peeling the orange:
regional paths to a nuclear free world” (Disarmament Forum, UNIDIR),
2011; (with Peter Hayes) “Paths to Peace on the Peninsula: The Case fora Japan-Korea Nuclear Weapon Free Zone” (Security Challenges, 2011);
and“Atomwaffenfreie Zone

(Osteuropa, 2011).

Arktis: VorbilderundPerspektiven”

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Peter Hayes
Director, Nautilus Institute (USA) / PSNA Co-ChairPeter Hayes is Honorary Professor, Center for International Security
Studies, Sydney University, Australia and Director, Nautilus Institute inBerkeley, California.
He works at the nexus of security, environment and energy policy
problems. Best known for innovative cooperative engagement strategies
in North Korea, he has developed techniques at Nautilus Institute forseeking near-term solutions to global security and sustainability problems
and applied them in East Asia, Australia, and South Asia.
Peter has worked for many international organizations including UN
Development Programme, Asian Development Bank, and Global
Environment Facility. He was founding director of the Environment
Liaison Centre in Kenya in 1975. He has traveled, lived, and worked in
Asia, North America, Europe and Africa. He has visited North Korea
seven times. He was born in Melbourne Australia; today he is a dual
national of Australia and the United States. He is married with twochildren.

Frank Niels Von Hippel
Professor of Public and International Affairs emeritus, Program on
Science and Global Security, Princeton University (USA) / PSNA
MemberFrank von Hippel is Senior Research Physicist and Professor of Public andInternational Affairs emeritus at Princeton University where, in 1975, heco-founded and co-chaired for three decades the Program on Science andGlobal Security. In 2006, he co-founded the International Panel on Fissile
Materials and co-chaired it for its first nine years
During 1983-90, he worked with President Gorbachev’s advisor, Evgenyi
Velikhov, to develop a number of successful initiatives to end nuclear
testing, end the production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium forweapons, and eliminate excess weapons materials.
He has advised U.S. Administrations and Congress on nuclear security
issues since the Carter Administration. During 1993-4, he served as
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Science and Technology Policy and helped develop U.S.- Russiancooperative initiatives on nuclear threat reduction.

Angela Uther Kane
Senior Fellow, Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation(VCDNP) (Austria) / PSNA Member
Angela Kane is a well-known expert in political relations andnegotiations, operating in a complex multilateral environment.
She holds several professional positions, including Senior Fellow at the
Vienna Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Vice President of
the International Institute for Peace, and Visiting Professor and Memberof the Strategic Committee of the Paris School for International Affairs
Sciences Po. In addition to board memberships in several NGOs in
Europe, the United States and Asia, she is the Chair of the United Nations
University Council; participates in the work of the High-Level Group on
Artificial Intelligence of the European AI Alliance. She also serves as CoChair of the Global Regional Council on the Korean Peninsula of theWorld Economic Forum.
Until 2015, Ms. Kane had a long and distinguished career at the United
Nations; her functions included High Representative for Disarmament
Affairs, Under-Secretary-General for Management, Assistant SecretaryGeneral for Political Affairs, and Assistant Secretary-General for General
Assembly and Conference Management. She served as Deputy Special
Representative of the Secretary-General for the United Nations Missionin Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), and had postings in the Democratic
Republic in the Congo, Indonesia, and Thailand.
Before joining the UN Secretariat, she worked for the World Bank and in
private industry. Ms Kane studied at the University of München and holds
degrees from Bryn Mawr College and the Johns Hopkins School of
Advanced International Studies. She received an honorary doctorate from
the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (Monterey, California).

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Anton Khlopkov
Director, Center for Energy and Security Studies (CENESS) (RussianFederation)
Mr. Anton Khlopkov is Director of the Center for Energy and Security
Studies (CENESS). He is also a Member of the Advisory Board under the
Security Council of the Russian Federation and Chairman of the Moscow
Nonproliferation Conference.
He graduated from the National Research Nuclear University ‘MEPhI’. In
2000, he was a Visiting Fellow at the James Martin Center for
Nonproliferation Studies. From 2000 to 2009 he has worked for the PIR
Center (Center for Policy Studies in Russia), including as Executive
Director (2007–2009).
He is co-author of the monographs: ‘Nuclear Nonproliferation in USRussian Relations: Challenges and Opportunities’, ‘At the Nuclear
Threshold: The Lessons of North Korea and Iran for the Nuclear NonProliferation Regime’, and ‘Multilateralization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle:
The First Practical Steps’. He is also co-editor and co-author of the report‘Pathways to Cooperation: A Menu of Potential U.S.-Russian Projects in
the Nuclear Sphere’, published in February 2017.
Anton Khlopkov leads CENESS projects to pursue Track II dialogue onpressing nuclear issues with experts from Iran and North Korea. He paid
eight separate visits to Pyongyang in 2012–2018. At the invitation of theAtomic Energy Organization of Iran, he visited several Iranian nuclear
facilities, including the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (BNNP) and the
Tehran Nuclear Research Center (TNRC).
On December 29, 2018 Russian President Vladimir Putin signed Decree
No 771 “On the Composition of the Advisory Board under the Security
Council of the Russian Federation”. The decree reappoints Anton
Khlopkov as member of the Board for the fifth time.
In January 2019 Mr. Khlopkov joined the U.N. Secretary-General’s
Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters. He is a member of the Group of
Eminent Persons for Substantive Advancement of Nuclear Disarmament,
established by on the initiative of the Foreign Ministry of Japan.

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Elisabeth I-Mi Suh
Research Assistant, German Institute for International and Security
Affairs (SWP) (Germany)
Elisabeth Suh is currently a research assistant at the German Institutefor International and Security Affairs (SWP) and a PhD candidate of
University of Hamburg. At the SWP, Betty works in a project on nuclear
disarmament, focusing on exploring common ground for a successful NPT
Review Conference in 2020. In her PhD research, she analyzes US-DPRK
negotiations between 1992 and 2012 in order to shed light on the usage ofnegotiating tactics such as issue-linkage, tit-for-tat behavior andsignaling. Betty has been affiliated with the SWP since 2016 andpreviously worked as a student assistant at the Peace Research InstituteFrankfurt (PRIF), also on issues of nuclear arms control anddisarmament.

Mark Byung-Moon Suh
Council Member, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs(Germany) / PSNA Member
Dr. Mark B. M. Suh is a retired political scientist from South Korea. He
taught courses on East Asian security issues at the Free University of
Berlin, Germany for more than 25 years until his retirement in 2012. He
is a member of the Pugwash Council (awarded 1995 Nobel Peace Prize)
since 1997 and of the German Council on Foreign Relations since 2012.
He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Security and Development
Policy (ISDP), Stockholm in 2013. He visits North Korea frequently since2001 and organizes capacity building projects for North Korean scientists
on energy and environmental issues.

Participant Profiles (as of May 22, 2019)Tong Zhao
Fellow, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy (China)
Tong Zhao is a Fellow at the Nuclear Policy Program of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, based at the Carnegie–Tsinghua
Center for Global Policy in Beijing. His research focuses on strategic
security issues, including nuclear weapons policy, arms control,
nonproliferation, missile defense, space security, and other international
security issues.
He is also an associate editor of the journal Science & Global Security, an
editor of the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, and a memberof the Asia Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation &Disarmament. He was previously a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at
the Belfer Center, Harvard University, a nonresident WSD-Handa Fellow
at Pacific Forum CSIS, and worked for the Office of Foreign Affairs of thePeople’s Government of Beijing Municipality. He holds a PhD in science,technology, and international affairs from Georgia Institute of Technology,
and received a B.S. in physics and an M.A. in international relations from
Tsinghua University.