LISTEN: Restructuring the Agenda: Shifting U.S.-DPRK Talks Toward Nuclear Safety

With Caroline Kearney
In conversation with Susan A. Thornton
November 2024

Susan Thornton, Director of the NCAFP’s program on Asia-Pacific security, sits down with PhD scholar Caroline Kearney to discuss her research into why the U.S. should have a new approach to negotiations with the DPRK, by changing the objective of talks from denuclearization to nuclear safety.

Read more about our Next-Generation Korean Peninsula Specialists Program here.

Caroline KEARNEY is a Ph.D. candidate in Korean Studies at Yonsei University and a 2023–24 U.S.–Asia Grand Strategy Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California’s Korean Studies Institute. Her dissertation focuses on interpreting North Korean foreign policy through state media analysis.

Previously, Caroline authored the Month-in-Review publication for NK Pro and organized dialogues and workshops on Korean Peninsula issues at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS) in Cambodia. She is the author of the CPCS report Seizing a Window of Opportunity for Peace on the Korean Peninsula and has contributed analyses to the Institute for Security and Development Policy and the Jeju Peace Institute.

In addition, Caroline has actively participated in advocacy efforts to promote peace on the Korean Peninsula in Washington, D.C., Brussels, and New York.

Caroline holds an M.A. in Global Affairs with a concentration in Conflict and Development from George Mason University and a B.A. in Political Science from Troy University in Alabama. She is fluent in Korean and Spanish.