Robert Winstanley-Chesters obtained his Ph.D from the University of Leeds' School of Geography. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds and has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge's Beyond the Korean War Project. He is the author of "Environment, Politics and Ideology in North Korea: Landscape as Political Project" and an author of the forthcoming "New Goddesses on Paektu Mountain: Violence, Myth, Gender and Transformation in Korean Landscape."