Helen-Louise Hunter was a political analyst at the CIA for twenty-three years, serving as the Assistant National Intelligence Officer for the Far East from 1979-81. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College, holds an M.A. in International Relations from Yale University and earned her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She is the author of Kim Il-song’ North Korea (1999) and Sukarno and the Indonesian Coup (2007) and co-author of North Korea, a Country Study(2008) and Lincoln, Day by Day (1959)