Members
The Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) has over one hundred members from eighteen countries across Asia and the Pacific, consisting of former political, diplomatic and military leaders, senior government officials, and scholars and opinion leaders. APLN aims to inform and energize public opinion, especially high-level policymakers, to take seriously the very real threats posed by nuclear weapons, and to do everything possible to achieve a world in which they are contained, diminished and eventually eliminated.
LEE Sang-Hyun
Dr. Lee Sang-Hyun is a Senior Research Fellow at the Sejong Institute in Korea.
Lee Sang-Hyun is a Senior Research Fellow at the Sejong Institute in Korea. He also served as President of the Korea Nuclear Policy Society (KNPS). He received his B.A. and M.A. from Seoul National University and Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999.
He was a research fellow at the Korean Institute for International Studies (1987-88), the Korea Institute for Defense Analysis (1988-90), and policy advisor for Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of National Unification, and Ministry of National Defense. He has served as Director-General for Policy Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) from May 2011 to April 2013. He is a member of Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN) for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament, and Korea-US Nuclear Policy Leadership Initiative (NPLI). He has been a visiting scholar at Institute for Development and Security (ISDP) in Stockholm, Sweden, and Stimson Center in Washington DC.
His main research interests include international politics and security, Korea-U.S. relations, inter-Korean relations, nuclear security and nonproliferation, and East Asian security issues. His recent publications include: “Prospects for the Biden Administration’s Foreign Policy” (2021), South Korea’s Foreign Policy in the Era of U.S.-China Strategic Competition (2020, co-authored), “Trump Administration’s Nuclear Policy: Implications for Global Nuclear Energy and North Korean Nuclear Issue” (2019), “Trump Administration’s National Security Policy and Its Implications for Global Order and Korean Peninsula” (2018), Trump Administration and ROK-US Relations (2017, co-authored), North Korea under Kim Jong-un: Evaluating Past Five Years (2017, co-authored), and so on.