Nah Liang Tuang is a Research Fellow with the Military Studies Programme at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS). He has also taught at the Command and Staff College, SAF Advanced School and Officer Cadet School at SAFTI Military Institute, and actively lectures at the SAF Warrant Officers School. In addition, he serves on the peer review board of the North Korean Review (NKR), a journal of Yonsei University’s School of International Studies, Republic of Korea. Liang Tuang completed his doctoral studies in International Relations at RSIS in 2015. His research specialities include nuclear weapons politics, nuclear non-proliferation, North Korean affairs and nationalism’s role in state defence. Liang Tuang’s articles, commentaries and op-eds have been published in the NKR, The Diplomat, East Asia Forum and Korea Times, amongst others.

• Politics and Strategy of Nuclear Armament and Disarmament
• North Korean Politics
• Non-Traditional Security

• Non-Traditional Security Emergency Planner, Housing Development Board, 2000-2004

RSIS Commentary Series

• Warship Debacle Adds to the Woes of North Korea’s Navy

  24 June, 2025

• Russian Equipment and Technology Transfers to North Korea: A Cause for Concern?

  30 December, 2024

• North Korean Labour - The Little-Known Factor in Pyongyang- Moscow Relations

  23 December, 2023

• The Latest Kim-Putin Summit

  18 September, 2023

• The Cyber Threat from Pyongyang

  05 January, 2023

• North Korea: Instability under Biden?

  12 November, 2020

• CO18164 | Korean Rapprochement: Analysing The Third North-South Summit

  08 October, 2018

• CO17198 | Nuclearised Northeast Asia: Why Including Japan, South Korea May Work

  23 October, 2017

• CO17147 | North Korea’s ICBMs: What Now?

  04 August, 2017

• CO16193 | China and North Korea’s Missiles: Having the Cake and Eating It?

  27 July, 2016

• CO16136 | North Korea’s Musudan Missile: An Evolving Threat

  06 June, 2016

• CO13174 | The Enemy of My Enemy: Perils of Training Syrian Rebels

  24 September, 2013

• CO12222 | North Korea: Is It Really a Serious Threat

  07 December, 2012

• CO12117 | Stopping Iranian Nuclear Proliferation: Sanctions or Inducements?

  05 July, 2012

• CO12071 | Pyongyang’s Information Age Missile Diplomacy

  23 April, 2012

• CO12040 | Iran’s Purported Nuclear Ambitions: Commercial Sanctions Counter-productive

  12 March, 2012

• CO11095 | Framing Cyber Warfare: Between Offence and Defence

  28 June, 2011

• CO11052 | Urban Search and Rescue: Boosting Intra-ASEAN Self Help

  04 April, 2011

Working Papers

• The Fourth Industrial Revolution’s Impact on Smaller Militaries: Boon or Bane?

  22 November, 2018

Journal Articles

• Nah, Liang Tuang. “Explaining North Korean Nuclear Weapons Motivations: Constructivism, Liberalism and Realism”, North Korean Review, 9(1), Spring 2013, pp. 61-82.
• Nah, Liang Tuang. “The Case for Japanese National Security Independence: A Possible Future Imperative”, Journal of Defense Studies and Resource Management, 1(2), 2012.

Chapters in Edited Books

• Nah, Liang Tuang. “Urban Search and Rescue: Boosting Intra-Asean Self-Help in Chpater 1 – Climate Change and Natural Disasters” in Yang Razali Kassim (ed.), Strategic Currents: Issues in Human Security in Asia. S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2011.

Op-Eds

• “South Korean arms to Ukraine as a three-course meal” (with Thomas Lim), Asia Times, 7 November 2024
• “How To Organize Ukraine’s Army After The War With Russia” (with Thomas Lim), 19fortyfive, 17 October 2022
• “North Korean Missile Overflight Drives Home Japan’s Need to Strengthen Missile Defense”, The Diplomat, 5 October 2022
• “North Korea’s dwindling relations with Southeast Asia”, East Asia Forum, 24 April 2021
• “The Strategic Impact of Indonesian KF-21s”, The Diplomat, 16 April 2021
• “The Tactical Implications of North Korea’s Military Modernization”, The Diplomat, 27 January 2021
• “Challenging Pyongyang’s Propaganda Discourse”, North Korean Review Online, 1 January 2021
• “How Will North Korea Greet the Biden Administration?”, The Diplomat, 10 November 2020
• “Short-term nuclear stability on the Korean Peninsula”, East Asia Forum, 10 October 2020
• “Will COVID-19 temper Pyongyang’s belligerence?”, East Asia Forum, 10 June 2020. Republished in Channel News Asia
• “Pyongyang’s cycle of provocation and negotiation: A dispassionate analysis” (with Shawn Ho), Asia Dialogue, 21 October 2019
• “Handshakes and Missiles: Mixed Signals From North Korea” (with Shawn Ho), The Diplomat, 9 August 2019