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Dr. Youngjun Kim is a Professor of National Security College of the Korea National Defense University. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the George Washington Institute for Korean Studies. He has been a member of National Security Advisory Board of the Republic of Korea President’s Office, Central Committee of the Presidential Peaceful Unification Advisory Board, the ROK-US Combined Command Forces’ Strategic Shaping Board, Performance Review Committee at the Prime Minister’s Office, an international senior research fellow of the Foreign Military Studies Office of the U.S. Army and a policy advisor for Ministry of National Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Intelligence Office, the Joint Chief of Staff, the U.S. Senate and Congress, the State Department, the Pentagon and Intelligence Agencies.

He leads the ROK-US nuclear expert network, Nuclear Policy Leadership Initiative, and a managing editor of the Korean Journal on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Energy sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dr. Kim published a book titled “Origins of the North Korean Garrison State: the People’s Army and the Korean War” at Routledge, “Why negotiating Nuclear Arms Control with North Korea: Why and How?” with Toby Dalton of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and others. Sponsored by the ROK and the US government, he has mainly organized numerous conferences and joint research project on the Korean Peninsula Security with multiple think tanks and universities. Dr. Kim received a BA in International Relations and BS in Military Science from the Korea Military Academy, MS in Public Service Policy and Management and a Postgraduate Diploma in European Studies and International Relations from King's College London and the UK Defence Academy, and a Ph.D. in History of International Politics and affairs from the University of Kansas.