Jonathan Pollack

Brookings Institution

Guest

Jonathan D. Pollack is the Interim SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies in the Center for East Asia Policy Studies and a senior fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. He is also the author of No Exit: North Korea, Nuclear Weapons and International Security.

Jonathan Pollack on KCRW

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