A distinguished group of international scholars debates the state of change or continuity in North Korea's post--Kim II Sung regime--shedding light on one of the world's most closed societies, its porential to adapt to post-cold war realities, and the prospects for a peaceful and stable Korean peninsula.

Thomas H. Henriksen is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. His current research focuses on American foreign policy, international political affairs, and insurgencies. He specializes in the study of US diplomatic and military courses of action toward terrorist havens in the non-Western world and toward the so-called rogue states, including North Korea and Iran. His forthcoming book, "America and the Rogue States," (Palgrave Macmillan) is coming out in 2012. Its predecessor, "American Power after the Berlin Wall," narrated US military and diplomatic interventions around the globe after the Cold War. His most recent monograph is "WHAM: Winning Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan and Elsewhere."

Jongryn Mo is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a professor of international political economy at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University. Before taking that position at Yonsei, he was an assistant professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. Mo holds a BA in economics from Cornell University, an MS in social sciences from the California Institute of Technology, and a PhD in business from Stanford University.