Terence Roehrig is a Political Science Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Professor Emeritus of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at the Kennedy School at Harvard University and President of the Association of Korean Political Studies. Roehrig has written numerous books, articles, and book chapters on Korean and East Asian security issues, North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, the South Korean Navy, deterrence theory, and the U.S.-South Korea alliance. His books include Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. Nuclear Umbrella: Deterrence After the Cold War (Columbia University Press) and The Evolution of the South Korea-United States Alliance (Cambridge University Press), co-authored with Uk Heo.