Emily E. Kim

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Indo-Pacific Security Initiative

Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

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Jun 11, 2026

To stop Chinese dual-use battery dominance, the United States and South Korea need to team up

By Joseph Webster, Alvin Camba, Emily E. Kim

Should China establish a global monopoly across battery supply chains, the military, strategic, and commercial implications for the US-ROK alliance will be profound.

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Emily E. Kim is a program assistant at the Atlantic Council’s Indo-Pacific Security Initiative within the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. In this role, she advances research and programming efforts to shape and align allied perspectives across the Atlantic and Pacific on defense and deterrence issues.

Previously, Kim has worked as a research assistant supporting analysis of gender bias in military artificial intelligence applications. She has also interned in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Her research interests include the security-development nexus, civil-military relations, post-conflict transitions, and histories of American intervention in the Pacific. Most recently, she participated and was published in the 2025 International Joint Research Project conducted by the Korean National Defense University’s Research Institute for National Security Affairs.

Kim earned her BS in foreign service from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of
Foreign Service. She achieved honors in culture and politics for her thesis examining the historical foundations of the US-South Korea relationship in the context of American technical aid to South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s.