Park Young-June is a professor of the Graduate School of National Security and the director-general of the Research Institute for National Security Affairs(RINSA) affiliated with the Korea National Defense University.
He obtained B.A. in political science from Yonsei University in 1986, M.A. in international relations from Seoul National University in 1988 and Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Tokyo in 2002. He also spend sabbthical year as a visiting scholar of the Program of U.S.-Japan relations at the Harvard University from 2010 to 2011 and from 2015 to 2016. He published several books and dozens of articles focusing on the issue of Japanese security policy and East Asian security affairs, including The Third Japan (in Korean, 2008), International Politics of Security (in Korean, 2010), The Status and Tasks of International Security in the 21st Century(in Korean, 2011), The Birth of Navy and Making of Modern Japan(in Korean, 2014), South Korea‘s National Security Strategy: Evolution and Challenges(in Korean, 2017), Imperial Japan's Wars, 1868-1945(2020) etc.