Dr. Joshua NT Park is a Ph.D., a senior researcher in IAS (Institute for Asian Strategy), Seoul Korea. His major research interests are China and North Korea security issues. He graduated from the Republic of Korea Naval Academy. He earned his Ph.D. in political science at Texas A&M University in 2007. In addition to his sea duties and ashore policymaking assignments, he also worked for the Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA), under ROK MND, as a professional researcher since 2018. Finally, he was discharged from the military in December 2021 as a navy captain. Last year, he went to Taiwan as a 2022 Taiwan Fellowship scholar and studied Chinese military at Taiwan National Defense University.