others, and reported for Institutional Investor and CBS from Baghdad in 2004. He writes columns for The Korea Times and Future Korea and has reported for The Daily Beast since the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and the June 2018 Singapore summit between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un. Education Kirk holds a bachelor's degree from Princeton, a master's in international relations from the University of Chicago and an honorary doctorate from the University of Maryland Global Campus. He was a Fulbright scholar, New Delhi, 1962–1963; a Ford fellow in Columbia University's advanced international reporting program, 1964–1965; Edward R. Murrow fellow, the Council on Foreign Relations, 1974–1975, visiting fellow, Cornell's Southeast Asia program, 1986-1988; Fulbright senior research scholar, Manila, 1994–1995, Abe fellow, Social Science Research Council, Japan and Korea, 2012; Fulbright-Nehru senior scholar, New Delhi, 2013. Awards Kirk won the Overseas Press Club of America Award, 1974, Asia reporting, for articles in the Chicago Tribune on the grim future for South Vietnam after the signing of the Paris Peace Agreement in 1973; the George Polk Award, foreign reporting, 1975, for exposing corruption in Vietnam and Cambodia; the Chicago Tribune’s Edward Scott Beck award, 1974; three Overseas Press Club citations, and the Chicago Newspaper Guild Page-One Award, feature-writing, 1962. Professional organizations Kirk is a Silver Owl member of the National Press Club, Washington, a life member of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Hong Kong, a fellow of the Institute for Corean-American Studies, and served six terms on the board of the Seoul Foreign Correspondents’ Club. He also belongs to the Overseas Press Club of America, International House of Japan, the Authors Guild of America, the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Books Kim Dae Jung Shinwha (The Legend of Kim Dae Jung), 2010 (Boogle Books (), Seoul), , . Korea Betrayed: Kim Dae Jung and Sunshine, 2009 (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, UK), . Jakten Pa Nobels Fredsris (The Search for the Nobel Peace Prize), with Kim Kisam, 2016 (Spartacus, Oslo), . Encyclopedia of Human Rights, entries on North Korea, South Korea, Kim Dae Jung, 2009 (Oxford, New York), . Korea Witness: 135 Years of War, Crisis and News in the Land of the Morning Calm, co-editor with Choe Sang-hun, 2006 (EunHaeng NaMu, Seoul), . Korean Crisis: Unraveling of the Miracle in the IMF Era, 2000, paperback 2002 (St. Martin's, NY, Macmillan UK), . Philippines