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North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un and sister Kim Yo Jong attend the Inter-Korean Summit at the Peace House on April 27, 2018, in Panmunjom, South Korea. (Pool via Getty Images)
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Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu at a meeting ceremony in North Korea on July 25, 2023. (Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation via Wikimedia Commons)
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The Threat Systems Management Office push a swarm of 40 drones through the National Training Center on May 8, 2019, in Fort Irwin, California. (James Newsome via DVIDS)
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Sailors prepare an F/A-18E Super Hornet for launch from the flight deck aboard the US Navy’s USS Ronald Reagan in the Philippine Sea on August 11, 2023. (Caroline H. Lui via DVIDS)
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Fishery workers unload seafood caught in offshore trawl fishing at Matsukawaura port in Soma City in Fukushima on September 1, 2023. (JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images)
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David Feith
Senior Fellow
Mike Gallagher
Distinguished Fellow
Mary Kissel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
John Lee
Senior Fellow
H.R. McMaster
Chair of the Advisory Board, Japan Chair
Walter Russell Mead
Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship
Liselotte Odgaard
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Steven Quay
Senior Fellow
Michael Sobolik
Senior Fellow
Miles Yu
Senior Fellow and Director, China Center
