Soo Kim

Soo Kim is a former CIA North Korea analyst and currently a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation. Her East Asia subspecialties include leadership and decision-making, authoritarian regimes, regional security, nonproliferation, and North and South Korea. Ms. Kim also has experience in the intelligence community and US homeland security issues, including immigration, border security, and illicit networks.

Ms. Kim has written for publications including Washington Examiner, CIA's Studies in Intelligence, National Review, The Cipher Brief, The National Interest, The Hill, RealClearWorld, and The Diplomat. She has appeared in television and radio programs including CNN, BBC, PBS NewsHour, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, CGTN, Turkish media, and South Korean radio and online programs. Ms. Kim has also been cited as an expert in US and international media, including Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Washington Post, NBC News, Financial Times, Voice of America (English and Russian), Bloomberg, Donga Ilbo, Radio Free Asia, and South China Morning Post.

Ms. Kim earned an M.A. in International Relations at Johns Hopkins University SAIS and a B.A. in French from Yale University. She is a native English and Korean speaker, and also has commands in French, Russian, and Japanese.

Sub-specialties: Nonproliferation, East Asian security, North Korean leadership, inter-Korean relations, US-South Korea alliance, US intelligence community, propaganda of authoritarian regimes, nuclear nonproliferation, illicit networks, US-Mexico relations, homeland security