Mr. Klingner is the Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia at The Heritage Foundation. Klingner joined Heritage in 2007 after twenty years government service with the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency. He was Chief of CIA`s Korea Branch, which provided analytic reports on military developments during the 1993-94 nuclear crisis with North Korea. Klingner was subsequently Deputy Division Chief for Korea 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 National Intelligence University, Defense Intelligence Agency.