Ramon Pacheco Pardo is a professor of international relations at King's College London and the KF-VUB Korea Chair at the Brussels School of Governance of Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Jung H. Pak, PhD, was SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies at the Brookings Institution until January 2021. She served as deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the US Department of State from 2021 to 2024 and is the author of Becoming Kim Jong Un (2020).