Victor Cha holds the D.S. Song Chair in Asian Studies and Government in the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is the award-winning author of Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan Security Triangle. Mr. Cha has written articles on international relations and East Asia in numerous journals, including Foreign Affairs, International Security, Political Science Quarterly, Survival, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Strategic Studies, Washington Quarterly, Orbis, the Journal of Peace Research, Security Dialogue, the Australian Journal of International Affairs, the Japanese Journal of Political Science, Korean Studies, and Asian Survey. Mr. Cha is a regular columnist for the Joongang Ilbo-International Herald Tribune and the Japan Times.

Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at AEI and served for many years as a member of Harvard University’s Center for Population and Development Studies. He is also on the Board of Advisers of the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Statistical Assessment Service and is a member of the Environmental Literacy Council. He frequently serves as a consultant for the U.S. Census Bureau and other government organizations on such topics as demography, international development, and East Asian security. Mr. Eberstadt has published over two hundred studies and articles in scholarly and popular journals, including Foreign Affairs, the New York Review of Books, Commentary, the New Republic, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. His books include Prosperous Paupers and Other Population Problems, The End of North Korea, The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement and Misrule, Korea Approaches Reunification, and most recently, Korea’s Future and the Great Powers.

Selig S. Harrison is the director of the Asia program at the Center for International Policy. Mr. Harrison is a senior scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and director of the Century Foundation’s Project on the United States and the Future of Korea. He has specialized in South Asia and East Asia for fifty years as a journalist and scholar and is the author of six books on Asian affairs and U.S. relations with Asia, including Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement.

David Kay is a senior fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. He was formerly a corporate senior vice president at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). He was a leader in SAIC’s efforts to support the U.S. Government’s counter-terrorism initiatives and efforts to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. To determine Iraqi nuclear weapons production capability following the Gulf War, Mr. Kay served as the UN’s chief nuclear weapons inspector in Iraq.

Paul Leventhal is president emeritus and founder of the Nuclear Control Institute. Before founding NCI, Mr. Leventhal served as special counsel to the Senate Government Operations Committee from 1972 to 1976 and as staff director of the Senate Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee from 1979 to 1981. He was largely involved in the creation of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 and in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Act of 1978. He also served as director of the Senate Special Investigation of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident.

Don Oberdorfer is the journalist in residence at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Affairs. Mr. Oberdorfer was a journalist for thirty-eight years, a Washington Post staff member for twenty-five years, and the paper’s diplomatic correspondent for seventeen years. Before becoming diplomatic correspondent in 1976, he served as Washington Post White House correspondent and Northeast Asia correspondent, based in Tokyo. He covered the Vietnam War as a correspondent in Saigon and Washington. His recent writings include The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History, which discusses the North-South struggle in Korea.

Danielle Pletka is the vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at AEI. Her research areas include the Middle East, South Asia (India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan), terrorism, and weapons proliferation. Before coming to AEI, she was a senior professional staff member for the Near East and South Asia on the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1992 to 2002. Ms. Pletka also served as a staff writer for Insight Magazine, as well as an editorial assistant for the Los Angeles Times and Reuters in Jerusalem.

Leon Sigal is the director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project at the Social Science Research Council in New York. His book, Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea, was named 1998 book of distinction on the practice of American diplomacy by the American Academy of Diplomacy. Mr. Sigal was a member of the editorial board of the New York Times from 1989 until 1995. He has served as an international affairs fellow in the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs at the Department of State and as a special assistant to the director.