Justin is the communications specialist for 38 North. Prior to this, he was a Washington correspondent for the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest daily and has worked as a political analyst and as an intern on Capitol Hill. He holds a B.A. in English literature from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, and an M.S. in Political Science from the University of Nebraska, Omaha, where he studied international relations and completed his thesis on North Korea as a rational actor using Graham Allison’s Essence of Decision as a framework