Kwang-Jin Kim is currently a Distinguished Professor at Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul, South Korea. He previously served as a member of the Advisory Board to the Office of National Security in the ROK Presidential Office.
He is a retired brigadier general in the Republic of Korea Air Force and held several senior command and staff positions, including Commander of the ROK Air Force University, Deputy Director of the Countering WMD Center at the ROK Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Commander of the 3rd Flying Training Wing at Sacheon Air Base. He also served for many years as an F-16 fighter pilot.
Professor Kim is the author of three books: The Stages of Development and Termination of Wars between States; Democracies and the Use of Force: The Iraq War, the Kosovo War, and the ROK–U.S. Alliance; and Conversations with the Military: Civil-Military Relations and Rivalries in the First and Second World Wars.
He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Missouri–Columbia, his M.A. from the Korea National Defense University, and his B.A. from the Korea Air Force Academy. He was also a fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
