Paul Chamberlin has broad expertise on issues related to South and North Korea, U.S. relationships with both Koreas, and U.S. strategy for Northeast Asia. He has extensive practical experience in the area (including living for six years in South Korea), as a U.S. Army foreign area (political-military) officer for Northeast Asia, scholar, CSIS adjunct fellow, and business consultant. As a U.S. Army officer, he served in diplomatic, intelligence, operational, and political-military policy planning positions in South Korea and the United States, including: military (and acting naval) attaché to Korea, political-military adviser to the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, member of the U.S. government’s interagency policy team for the first North Korean nuclear crisis in the early 1990s, and chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s North Korea military capabilities section. He has been a CSIS adjunct fellow since 1993. Chamberlin is an honor graduate of the Defense Language Institute’s Korea language program, a distinguished military graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, and he holds a master of human relations degree from the University of Oklahoma. His military decorations include the Republic of Korea (ROK) National Security Medal (Samil), approved by the ROK president, and the U.S. Army Legion of Merit. News organizations that have sought his views include ABC Nightline, CNN, CNN International, FOX News Radio, Radio Free Asia, Voice of America, Al Jazeera, BBC, Korean Broadcasting System, Korea Times, and Yonhap News. Other Paul Chamberlin's publications |