Hyunseung Yu

Hyunseung Yu is a Research Assistant at the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA), focusing on the defense industry. His personal research interests are alliance politics in Northeast Asia, the Korean Peninsula security issues, and nuclear deterrence. He has previously interned at think tanks, including the CSIS Korea Chair, the Wilson Center, and the Pacific Forum. […]
Yujin Son

Ms. Yujin Son holds a Master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a Bachelor’s in International Relations from the University of Sydney. She is currently an intern with the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Previously, she served in the Political-Military Affairs Unit at […]
Dongkeun Lee

Dongkeun Lee is a PhD candidate at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) at the Australian National University (ANU). Before joining SDSC as a PhD candidate in February 2022, he served for three years as an intelligence officer in the ROKN. His thesis analyses the development of sea power in the Indo-Pacific region, focusing […]
Jinwon Lee

Jinwon Lee is Ph.D. candidate of Political Science at University of Illinois at Urbana– Champaign. She served as a researcher at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security at the Korea National Diplomatic Academy and a research associate at the Korea Institute for National Unification. She was a 2023-2024 Hans J. Morgenthau Grand Strategy […]
Matthew F. Fleming

Matthew F. Fleming is a PhD student at Northeastern University and a Non-Resident James A. Kelly Korea Fellow at the Pacific Forum. His research focuses on Indo-Pacific strategies, minilateralism, and strategic competition in Northeast Asia, with an emphasis on U.S.-ROK-Japan, U.S.-Korea, and U.S.-Japan foreign relations. Fleming is also a Research Assistant at the Center for […]
Kinnidie White

Captain Kinnidie White serves as an Information Operations Planner at Camp Humphreys, Republic of Korea, where she integrates information-related capabilities across multiple domains to shape the local operating environment. Her first assignment at the Joint Security Area with the United Nations Command Joint Security Battalion provided her with firsthand exposure to the complexities of inter-Korean […]