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Don Oberdorfer (born 1931) is an American professor at Johns Hopkins University and was a journalist for 38 years, 25 of them with The Washington Post. He is the author of five books and several academic papers.

As a young man he graduated from Princeton University and went to South Korea as an Army lieutenant after the signing of the armistice that ended the Korean War. In 1955 he joined The Charlotte Observer, and eventually found a job with The Washington Post. He was assigned to cover the administration of President Richard Nixon but spent the bulk of his time (17 years) with the paper as a diplomatic correspondent in Tokyo. He retired in 1993.

Bibliography

• Tet!, September 1, 1971, ISBN 0-385-08571-0. (finalist for the National Book Award)
• The Turn: From the Cold War to the New Era, Poseidon Press, October 1, 1991, ISBN 0-671-70783-3.

Published in an updated edition as From the Cold War to the New Era: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1983-1991, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-8018-5922-0.

• Princeton University: The First 250 Years, Princeton University Press, October 30, 1995, ISBN 0-691-01122-2.
• The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History, Perseus Books, October 1, 1997, ISBN 0-201-40927-5.

Published in a revised and updated edition, Basic Books, February 5, 2002, ISBN 0-465-05162-6.

• Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman and Diplomat, Smithsonian Books, October 1, 2003, ISBN 1-58834-166-6.

Selected Articles and Papers

• Don Oberderfer and Donald Gregg, "A Moment to Seize With North Korea", Washington Post, June 22, 2005[1]
• Don Oberdorfer, "The United States and South Korea: Can This Alliance Last?", Policy Forum Online, November 17, 2005.[2]
• Don Oberdorfer and Hajime Izumi, "The United States, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula: Coordinating Policies and Objectives".[3]

External links

• The Don Oberdorfer Papers
• "ROK-US Alliance Is In Trouble: Scholar" The Korea Times, November 3, 2005.
• Multimedia: Keynote Address for the Foreign Policy Research Institute.[4]