Daeun Choi is a Research Associate at the Center for Foreign Policy and National Security at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, South Korea. Previously she worked as a Diplomacy research development associate at Youthplomacy and a human rights analyst at the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights. She also supported city-diplomacy activities at the Seoul Institue after undertaking a political internship at the EU Delegation to the Republic of Korea. Her research interests are security and foreign policy of the Asia-Pacific, inter-Korean relations, geopolitical issues, and North Korea’s nuclear policy and US-ROK alliance, extended deterrence.
She holds an MA in International Peace and Security from Korea University Graduate School of International Studies, South Korea and earned her BA in Politics and International Relations from the University of Manchester, U.K