Donald Kirk is a veteran newspaper correspondent who has worked throughout East Asia and in the Middle East.

A columnist for WorldTribune.com and a Contributing Editor for Geostrategy-Direct.com, he has also written for the International Herald Tribune, the New York Times, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, CBS, Asian Wall Street Journal, National Review, Chicago Sun Times, South China Morning Post and other publications.

He traveled to Indonesia in late 1965 in a period of civil strife, “the Year of Living Dangerously.” From Indonesia, he gravitated to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos as a correspondent based in Hong Kong for the old Washington Star and then in Tokyo for the Chicago Tribune. Kirk freelanced from Tokyo and Korea before joining USA Today as an editor and correspondent.

“I have had senior Fulbright research grants in India and the Philippines and have written two books from Korea, one on the late Korean president, Kim Dae-Jung, the other on bases in Okinawa and Jeju. My latest, “Kim Dae Jung and the Quest for the Nobel,” co-author Kim Kisam, was published in Norway under the title “Jakkten Pa Nobels Fredspris.”

Prizes include an Overseas Press Club award for Asia reporting in 1971, a George Polk Award for foreign reporting in 1975 and three OPC citations..

A graduate of Princeton University with a Masters in International Relations from the University of Chicago, Kirk was a Fulbright Scholar and winner of the Overseas Press Club’s George Polk Award.

Strategy Team