Daekwon Son is a PhD candidate in International Relations at Peking University and a Kim Jun-Yop Fellow of the Institute of Social Sciences. He is a former Korea Foundation Resident Fellow at the Pacific Forum CSIS (2017) in Honolulu, USA. His research interests include Sino-US relations, ROK-US alliance, North Korea’s nuclear armament, and China’s nuclear posture, among other research topics. He has published multiple peer-reviewed journal articles and op-eds in Korean, English, and Chinese.