Sung-Yoon Chung is a Research Professor and the head of division of research planning and coordination at the Ilmin International Relations Institute (IIRI), Korea University since 2007. Dr. Chung completed his Ph.D., M.A. and B.A. in Political Science from Korea University. Prior to joining the IIRI, he served as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Asian Studies at American University. Dr. Chung’s research interests include security studies and crisis management in Northeast Asia and he is currently involved in various research projects evaluating the U.S.-North Korea relations as well as the security dynamics on the Korean Peninsula. His recent researches are as follows: “North Korea’s Hwa-Chun Double-Sided Strategy (2012)” and “Crisis Decision Making Theory Revisited (2011).”