Robert Walker is a graduate student of Texas A&M University’s Bush School of Government and Public Service, studying for a Master’s of International Affairs. He is concentrating in diplomacy and foreign policy, China and the indopacific, and grand strategy and military policy. Before this, he received a Bachelor’s in International Political Economy from the University of Texas at Dallas with an area concentration in China, where he studied three years of Mandarin.

Having Ukrainian family who suffered under Stalinism and the holodomor, Robert has always held communism and the crimes against humanity which inevitably follow it in disdain. In addition, he has a passion for East Asia and a long-standing interest in an international affairs career. As North Korea is a security challenge, an East Asian geopolitical question, and the last bastion of Soviet-style communism, he sought out an internship with HRNK.

As an intern with HRNK, Robert seeks to understand how North Korea and the Kim regime work, in order to craft better human rights policy, grand strategy, and statecraft for the US. He also seeks to understand North Korea’s relationship to China, increasingly one of the most important players on the world stage. He hopes to become a diplomat for the US Department of State after graduation, and work in East Asia.