r. Kyung-Joo Jeon is a Research Fellow in the Center for Foreign Policy and National Security at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Her research focuses on North Korean foreign and military affairs, the ROK-U.S. alliance and extended deterrence, and South Korean defense strategy. Prior to joining Asan, she served as Chief of the Korean Peninsula Security Research Division and Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA), where she previously served as Associate Research Fellow and Researcher. She has also served as a Visiting Expert at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and a Visiting Fellow at the National Defense University (NDU). Dr. Jeon received a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from Korea University, as well as an M.Sc. in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).