Youngjun Kim is a professor at the national security college at the Korea National Defense University, a visiting professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, and a nonresident fellow at the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) in Washington, DC. He has been a member of National Security Advisory Board of the Republic of Korea (ROK) president’s office, the Central Committee of the ROK Presidential Peaceful Unification Advisory Board, the ROK-US Combined Command Forces’ Strategic Shaping Board, and Performance Review Committee at the ROK prime minister’s office. Dr. Kim also serves as an international senior research fellow of the Foreign Military Studies Office of the US Army and a policy advisor for the ROK Ministry of National Office, ROK Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROK National Intelligence Office, ROK Joint Chief of Staff, US Congress, and the US Departments of State and Defense.