Suon Choi

Suon Choi is a research fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses. She also serves as a research fellow on the ROK Ministry of National Defense’s (MND) Defense Innovation Special Advisory Committee and as an MND Policy Advisor Committee Defense Innovation Subcommittee Advisor. 

Her research expertise includes South Korea’s defence strategy, the U.S.-ROK alliance, and extended deterrence. Currently, she is researching U.S. extended deterrence, its credibility, and ROK’s nuclear armament debate.

She holds a B.A. in economics and international relations from Seoul National University, summa cum laude, and an M.A. in political science from Yale University. She is a doctoral student in international affairs at Georgia Tech.