Martyn Williams is a Senior Fellow with the Stimson Center, where he works primarily with 38 North. His primary interests are in North Korea’s technology, infrastructure, broadcasting system and propaganda. He launched the North Korea Tech website in 2010 and has closely followed the country’s steps onto the global Internet.
Mr Williams is originally from the United Kingdom and has been based in the United States since 2011 after living for 16 years in Tokyo, Japan. He was previously a journalist for IDG News Service, a technology newswire, in both Tokyo and San Francisco and was a 2011-12 Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University.
He is also an author for the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and wrote “Digital Trenches: North Korea’s Information Counter-Offensive.”
