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Park Young-June

Park Young-June is a Professor at the Graduate School of National Security
and Director-General of the Research Institute for National Security Affairs
(RINSA) affiliated with the Korea National Defense University. He obtained a
B.A. in Political Science from Yonsei University in 1986, an M.A. in International
Relations from Seoul National University in 1988 and a Ph.D. in International
Relations from the University of Tokyo in 2002. He also spent a sabbatical year
as a visiting scholar of the Program of U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University
from 2010 to 2011 and from 2015 to 2016. He has published several books
and dozens of articles focusing on the issue of Japanese security policy and East
Asian security affairs, including The Third Japan (2008), International Politics
of Security (2010), The Status and Tasks of International Security in the 21st
Century (2011), The Birth of the Navy and the Making of Modern Japan (2014),
South Korea’s National Security Strategy: Evolution and Challenges (2017), and
Imperial Japan’s Wars, 1868-1945 (2020).

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