David Fields

David earned his PhD in history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, specializing in US-Korean relations. He is the author of Foreign Friends: Syngman Rhee, American Exceptionalism, and the Division of Korea (University Press of Kentucky, 2019), the editor of The Diary of Syngman Rhee, (published by the Museum of Contemporary Korean History, 2015,) and Divided America, Divided Korea: The US and Korea During and After the Trump Years (Cambridge University Press, 2024). He has been published in the Washington Post, The National Interest, North Korea Review, Journal of American-East Asian Relations, SinoNK.com, NKnews.org, Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society-Korea Branch and in the Working Papers Series of the Cold War International History Project. His commentary and analysis has appeared on National Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio, C-SPAN, and CNN in addition to local radio and television.