Ramon Pacheco Pardo is Professor of International Relations at King's College London and the KF-VUB Korea Chair at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
[7] Pacheco Pardo is a professor at King's College London and became KF-VUB Korea Chair in October 2017.
Pacheco Pardo is the author of "North Korea-US Relations Under Kim Jong Il: The Quest for Normalization?
", where he argues that North Korea's main foreign policy goal is to normalize diplomatic relations with the United States to boost its security and launch economic reform.
He argues that South Korea's top priority is to be able to have independence of action by being able to make is own foreign policy and security decisions without external influence.