Jung H. Pak, PhD

@junghpak1 · Washington, DC · joined 29 Jul 2015

Author of Becoming Kim Jong Un. Former CIA. Former State Dept. Former Brookings Inst Sr Fellow. Personal account.

17 266Followers

536Following

1 561Posts total

443.5KViews on collected posts

Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

43.5K6 Apr

2.4K7 Apr

10.4K10 Apr

1.4K

353.1K21 Apr

23.6K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.36%6 Apr

0.70%7 Apr

0.24%10 Apr

0.51%

0.92%

0.15%21 Apr

0.76%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes70.4%779 in total

Reposts13.0%144 in total

Replies2.8%31 in total

Quotes5.4%60 in total

Bookmarks8.4%93 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

My book Becoming Kim Jong Un (@penguinrandom 2020) ended the story in 2019. I wrote this essay for @ForeignAffairs to cover 2020-2025 to show how Kim mastered Covid, China, and geopolitics. 23.6K views · 137 likes · 38 reposts · 1 replies 21 Apr 2026 “In the past, Washington has been able to work with Beijing and Moscow, albeit to a limited extent, to restrain Pyongyang and prevent a military confrontation,” writes @junghpak1. “But today, the North Korea challenge is both more formidable and more durable.” https://t.co/Fjq0EJ 353.1K views · 420 likes · 66 reposts · 16 replies 21 Apr 2026 Excited to get my copy of @JChengWSJ ‘s book today and looking forward to our conversation @BrookingsInst on April 27 . https://t.co/oJFIfHRrRd https://t.co/veKLUkW1Sg 9K views · 67 likes · 13 reposts · 2 replies 10 Apr 2026 Russia and North Korea cultivating generational ties, as intended by Putin and Kim. This relationship isn’t going away anytime soon. Great color and reporting from @VALERIEinNYT 1.4K views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 10 Apr 2026 In 2021, 3% of Russians said they viewed North Korea as a friendly country, according to polling by the independent Levada Center. By 2025, almost a third of respondents listed North Korea as among Russia’s closest allies. My report from Moscow. https://t.co/77JRK5RX3k 10.4K views · 18 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies 10 Apr 2026 KJU's lesson from his own extremely truncated succession was that he didn't have a history in the way that his guerrilla hero grandfather and country founder Kim Il Sung had. His father Kim Jong Il also lacked the gravitas and a history of martial prowess. 2.4K views · 12 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 07 Apr 2026 South Korea's spy agency now believes North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's teenage daughter has been positioned as his successor, lawmakers said, citing a recent public display of her driving a tank that was likely intended to dispel any doubts https://t.co/K92GQDqP6L 43.5K views · 120 likes · 22 reposts · 7 replies 06 Apr 2026 The paperback is out! So grateful to the team @randomhouse for the ongoing support and enthusiasm for this project. https://t.co/NSvjwtYank 0 views · 179 likes · 32 reposts · 23 replies 07 Apr 2021

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