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Katy Oh
Dr. Kongdan (Katy) Oh is a Senior Asia Specialist at the Institute for Defense Analyses. She was formerly a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation. She has taught courses at a number of universities, including the University of California, San Diego. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Directors of the United States Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific, and she is the co-founder and former co-director of The Korea Club of Washington, D.C. She has authored, co-authored, and edited 8 books, published more than 30 research monographs, and numerous articles and book chapters. Her most recent book is
The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom (2nd edition, April 2015). She is currently working on a new book comparing the strategic cultures of China, Japan and Korea. She speaks Chinese, Japanese, and her native Korean.
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