Suon Choi is a Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA) and Indo-Pacific Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. She served as ROK Ministry of National Defense (MND) Defense Innovation Special Advisory Committee Research Fellow and MND Policy Advisor Committee Defense Innovation Subcommittee Advisor. Her research expertise includes South Korea’s defense strategy, U.S.-ROK alliance, and Pol-Mil game strategy. Currently, she is researching U.S. extended deterrence, its credibility, and ROK’s nuclear armament debate.

She holds a BA in Economics and International Relations from Seoul National University, summa cum laude, and MA in Political Science from Yale University. She is a doctoral student in International Affairs at Georgia Tech.