Peter Han

Peter Han is a Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge. Peter’s current PhD research is on the Korean unification question, specifically focusing on North Korea’s unification program in the 1980s. Using primary sources from the archives, Peter investigates how the external and internal situations affected Pyongyang’s approach toward unification during the last decade of the Cold War. From June 2022 to January 2023, Peter was based at Seoul National University’s Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies as a Junior Fellow. Before starting his PhD, Peter worked as the Korea Program Manager at Relational Peacebuilding Initiatives (RPI), an international NGO facilitating a track-two process between South Korea, North Korea and the United States. Peter has an MPhil in Planning, Growth and Regeneration from the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge and a BA from Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong.