Education

• 1997

  B.A. in Law, Tokyo Metropolitan University

• 2000

  M.A. in Politics, Keio University

• 2009

  M.A. in International Affairs, American University

Selected Publications

NIDS Website (English)

• "North Korea’s Doctrine of Nuclear Preemption"

  August 2024

• "The U.S.-ROK Washington Declaration: Autonomy and control in deterrence strategy"

  May 2023

• "Coercive Diplomacy for Political Objective: North Korea Threatened the Moon Jae-in Administration of South Korea"

  Security & Strategy, Volume 3 (January 2023)

• "North Korea Talks Could Become a Worse Version of the INF Negotiations"

  July 2021

• "The Korean Peninsula on the Eve of the Biden Administration: Politicized Nuclear Question and Great Power Politics"

  January 2021

• "The Panmunjom Declaration for North Korea: Nuclear Weaponry, Alignment, and Regime Competition"

  June 2018

• "In South Korea, NATO is a Reference for Tactical Nuclear Weapon Advocates"

  February 2018

• "Without Incentives: North Korea's Response to Denuclearization"

  NIDS Journal of Defense and Security, No.18 (December 2017).

• "The US-ROK Alliance Faces China: South Korea's Missile Defense"

  March 2016

• "Reform of South Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration"

  December 2014

Japanese

• "Realism and Non-Realism in Defense Industries"

  Kokusai Anzenhoshou (The Journal of International Security), Vol. 51, No. 4 (March, 2024)

• "Politics of Peace Treaty on Korea: Common Threats and Ally's Control"

  Toa (East Asia), No. 617 (November 11, 2018).

• "The Reason Why China- South Korea Rapprochement Falls Short of Honeymoon"

  WEDGE, Vol. 27, No. 7 (July 2015).

• "Women in the ROK Armed Forces: A Condition for Deterrence to North Korea"

  NIDS Security Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2 (February 2015).

• "Redefinition of Asymmetric Alliance in Bipolar Worlds: The Role of the Republic of Korea-United States Alliance in Great Power Politics"

  Journal of Law (Keio University), Vol. 83, No.12 (December 2010).