Byong-Chul Lee

Byong-Chul Lee is an Assistant Professor at Kyungnam University’s Institute for Far Eastern Studies (IFES) in Seoul, South Korea. His research interests include North Korean denuclearization, nuclear non-proliferation, and policies on ROK-US relations. Before joining the IFES, Dr. Lee worked as an aide to the Presidential Senior Secretary for Foreign and National Security Affairs and served as a foreign and national security policy planning staff member at the Presidential Office of South Korea from 1993 to 1999. He also served as a special aide and policy planning secretary to the Speaker of the National Assembly from 2015 to 2016. His op-eds and comments have appeared in The New York Times, 38North, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, YaleGlobal, Project Syndicate, and The South China Morning Post, among other publications