Chad O’Carroll is the founder / CEO of NK News and NK Pro, a North Korea-specialized news, information and data service that serves researchers, academics and business people around the world. O’Carroll established the website in 2010 while living in Washington, DC. He was a Fellow of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism (CUNY) and was previously the Director of Communications at the Korea Economic Institute of America. He has an MA in Nuclear Non-proliferation & Intl’ Security from Kings College London and a BA in International Relations from Sussex University

Andrei Lankov was born 26 July 1963 in Leningrad (now Petersburg). He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Leningrad State University (PhD in 1989). In 1996-2004 he taught Korean history at the Australian National University, and since 2004 he teaches at Kookmin University in 2004, Seoul (currently a professor at the College of Social Studies), and also director of Korearisk.com group.
His major research interest is North Korean history and society. His major English language publications on North Korea include: From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960 (Rutgers University Press, 2003); Crisis in North Korea: The Failure of De-Stalinization, 1956 (University of Hawaii Press, 2004), North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea (McFarland and Company, 2007), The Real North Korea (Oxford University Press, 2013). He contributed to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Newsweek, and published a number of academic articles, including two articles in Foreign Affairs and an article in the Foreign Policy. In 2017 Foreign Policy magazine included him into the list of "Global Thinkers."

Jacco Zwetsloot has lived in Korea for 19 of the last 24 years, with a broad range of work experience in the communication, tourism and broadcasting sectors.
Currently, Jacco works for Insight Communications Consultants as a senior consultant in public relations and communication to Korean and international firms. He also hosts the weekly NK News Podcast, appears as a weekly guest on Arirang Radio, moderates panel discussions, writes a monthly Korean newspaper column, and organizes meetings of people who travel to North Korea to exchange observations.
Jacco holds a Master of Arts degree in Korean Studies from Leiden University, a Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies from Monash University and a separate Bachelor of Arts in Modern European Studies and the German Language from the University of Melbourne.