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view all papers by Bruce Klingner summary: Bruce Klingner is the Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia at The Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center. Klingner joined Heritage in 2007 – when Six Party Talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons programs were re-energized by the Beijing Agreement. His articles in the West have appeared in The Financial Times, USA Today, Washington Times, and the quarterly journal Korea and World Affairs. In the Far East, his articles have appeared in Chosun Ilbo, Joongang Ilbo, The Korea Herald, The Korea Times, Kukmin Daily, Nikkei Weekly and The Asia Times. Before coming to Heritage, Klingner spent several years at the Eurasia Group, a global political risk assessment firm, as its primary Korea analyst. In that role, he wrote articles and analyses for most major Asian and American newspapers. He also was a frequent panelist in policy forums around Washington and is well known as a leading Korea analyst throughout the Washington policy community. Before working at Eurasia, he worked as the Director of Analysis and Senior Asia Analyst at the Intellibridge Corp., which provides intelligence and analysis to government and business decision-makers. Klingner also spent 20 years in the intelligence community working at the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency. In 1994, he was the selected as Chief of the Korea Branch at the National Photographic Interpretation Center where he provided analytic reports on military developments during the nuclear crisis with North Korea. From 1996-2001, Klingner was the Deputy Chief of the Korea Issue Group in the CIA's directorate of intelligence where he was responsible for analyzing Korean political, military, economic and leadership issues for the president and other senior policymakers. Klingner is a distinguished graduate of the National War College where he earned a master's degree in national security strategy in 2002. He also earned a master's in strategic intelligence from the Defense Intelligence College and has a bachelor's degree in political science from Middlebury College in Vermont. He is active in Korean martial arts and has attained black belt status in tae kwon do, hapkido and teuk kong moo sool. |
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