Aidan Foster-Carter has tracked trends on the Korean peninsula ever since 1968, starting unpropitiously as a Kim Il-sung fanboy. Educated at Eton and Oxford (PPE), he taught development sociology at the Universities of Hull, Dar es Salaam and Leeds from 1971 to 1997. Since then he has been a full-time analyst and consultant on contemporary Korea: writing, lecturing and broadcasting for academic, business and policy audiences worldwide. Widely published, he has been Oxford Analytica’s main contributor on Korea since the 1980s, and until 2017 did the same at EIU. He also writes for IISS and elsewhere.