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An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III ICBM launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
Frank Aum is the senior expert on Northeast Asia at the United States Institute of Peace. Prior to that, he worked at the Department of Defense, including as special counsel to the Army General Counsel, special assistant to the assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs, and senior advisor on the Korean Peninsula in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.