Education

• The University of Kansas
• The United States of America
• MSc in Public Policy (Security Policy), King’s College London, The United Kingdom

Professional Experience

• Professor, Department of International Politics, National Security College, Korea National Defense University, South Korea (August 2015 to Present).
• Visiting Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University in Washington DC (January 2023 to January 2024)
• Non Resident Fellow, The National Bureau of Asian Research in Washington DC (March 2023 to Present)
• A Member, The Central Committee, The Presidential Peaceful Unification Advisory Council (December 2021 to Present)
• A Member, Advisory Board on Arms Control and WMD, the Ministry of National Defense (January 2023 to Present)
• Director of Center for Defense Policy Studies at the Research Institute of National Security Affairs of the Korea National Defense University (2022 to Present)
• A Managing Editor, The Korean Journal on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Energy sponsored by Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2019 to Present)
• A Member, National Security Advisory Board, the Republic of Korea President’s Office (January 2018 to 2022)
• A Member, Advisory Board Committee, Department of Unificaiton (Jauary 2019 to Present)
• The Korean Delegation Speaker, Public Diplomacy to the US, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Westcoast, NYC and DC area)
• The Korean Delegation Speaker, Asian Regional Forum (2018)
• Director of International Security Academy (For the United States Forces in Korea and Diplomats in the US Embassy of Korea), The Korea National Defense Univesity (2020 January to Present)
• Director of Northeast Asian Affairs Center and Director of North Korea Affairs Center at the Research Institute of National Security Affairs of the Korea National Defense University (2020 to 2021)
• A Project Leader, the ROK-US Nuclera Policy Expert Network (sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) (2018 to Present)
• A Project Leader, The ROK-US Joint Study on WMD and Conventional Arms Control (Sponsored by the Ministry of National Defense) (2018 to 2022)
• Official Reviwer of Government Performance for Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Department of Unification at the Prime Minister’s Office (2018 to 2020)
• International Senior Research Fellow, The US Army Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO) at Fort Leavenworth (2012 to 2021).
• Director of Graduate Studies Program, Department of Military Strategy, National Security College, Korea National Defense University, Seoul, South Korea (2018 to 2021)
• Director of the KNDU Academy for International Security (2020 to Present)
• Director of Center for Northeast Asian Affairs, Research Insititute of National Security Affairs, The Kore National Defense University (2021 to 2022)
• Director of Center for North Korean Studies, Research Insititute of National Security Affairs, The Kore National Defense University (2021 to 2022)
• Chief of Staff to the President of the Korea National Defense University (2022 to Present)
• Expert Contributor/ Monthly Columnist on Korean security issues for Operational Environment Watch of the FMSO of the US Army (January 2012 to 2015)
• Member, Commander Strategic Shaping Board (CSSB) of the ROK-US Combined Command (2017 to 2019)
• Managing Editor, The Korean Journal on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Energy (Ministry of Foreign Affairs Journal) (2019 to Present)
• Expert Regular Columnist, Defenes Newspaper (January 2018 to Present)
• Expert TV Presenter, Fox News TV, BBC News TV, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera TV News, WION News (India), Kyoto Tongshin (Japan), Younhap News TV, MBC TV, Arirang Television News Program (Korea’s English TV) and the Weekly Current Affair Program (Peninsula 24), Weekly Current Affair Program (Defense Focus), Defense TV
• Excutive Director, Korea Nuclear Policy Society (June 2017 to Present)
• Research Director, Korea Defense Policy Association (January 2017 to Present)
• Member and Director, Security and Defense Studies Section of the Korea International Studies Association (January 2017 to Present)
• Director, Korea Political Science Assoication (2020 to Present)
• Executive Director, Korea Polical and Diplomatic History Association (2021 to Present)
• Director, Korea Nuclear Material Management Association (2021 to Present)
• Policy Advisor, Defense Reform Board, Ministry of National Defense, the Republic of Korea

Publication

Books

• Origins of the North Korean Garrison State: The People’s Army and the Korean War (London and New York: Routledge, 2017)
• Articles and Book Chapters
• “Negotiating Nuclear Arms Control with North Korea: Why and How?” The Korea Journal of Defense Analysis (March 2021) with Toby Dalton
• “ The Wilsonian State: The Korea in Modern World History” in The Future of the Korean Peninsula: Korea 2032 and Beyond (London: Routeldge, 2021)
• “Emerging Rebalancing Strategy of India in the Indian Ocean Region and the India-Korea Straetegie Partnership” The Korea Journal of Defense Analysis (March 2020) with Lakvinder Singh
• “Korean War: Myths and Misconceptions” The Wilson Quarterly (Summer 2020) with Samuel F. Wells, JR., Robert S. Litwak and Donggil Kim
• “North Korea’s Relations with China and Russia in the Security Realm” in National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) Report “The China-Russia Entente and the Korean Peninsula” (March 2019)
• “Why did Stalin not support a quck victory of the Korean People’s Army? : Stalin’s Unspoken Strategy for the Korean War”
• The Korea Journal of International Studies (April 2019)
• “Russian Strategic Thinker Alexander Svechin’s Strategy and Putin’s Military Strategy” Strategic Studies (July 2019)