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Humanitarian Assistance and Social Change in North Korea. She recently directed three research projects that have each resulted in edited publications (2007). These are Humanitarian Diplomacy: Practitioners and Their Craft, edited with Larry Minear of Tufts University; Diasporas in Conflict: PeaceMakers or PeaceWreckers?, edited with Paul Stares of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York; and Reconstituting Korean Security: A Policy Primer. Dr. Smith has undertaken extensive field work in the DPRK, Nepal, China, and Nicaragua––carrying out scholarly research and working for various intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations. She commentates for the international media on the DPRK, East Asian security, the United Nations, and humanitarian assistance. She is regularly interviewed on AsiaPacific security, North Korea, and international affairs by the BBC and global media outlets, including CNN, Voice of America, and Radio Free Asia, and she was recently a panelist for Forum at PressTV, hosted by Andrew Gilligan.
Alexander Zhebin is Director of the Center for Korean Studies (CKS) of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He worked for 17 years as a journalist at the TASS News Agency. He served as TASS correspondent in Pyongyang, then TASS Bureau Chief in Pyongyang until 1990. He joined the IFES in 1992. In 1998 he served as First Secretary and Counselor of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the DPRK till 2001. He is author of Pyongyang, Seoul, then Moscow (1991, in Korean) and Luster and Misery of the Kim’s Empire (1992, in Japanese). Dr. Zhebin has also authored numerous articles on political developments in the DPRK, Russia–North Korea relations, and security of the Korean peninsula.