His areas of specialty are the People's Republic of China[4] and the North Korean nuclear weapons program.
[5][6] Suettinger served as Director for Asian Affairs[7] on the National Security Council from March 1994 to October 1997,[8] where he assisted National Security Advisers Anthony Lake and Sandy Berger in the development and implementation of U.S. policy toward the Asia-Pacific region.
He also served as deputy national intelligence officer for East Asia at the NIC from 1989 to 1994, and from 1987 to 1989 was President George H. W. Bush's director of the office of analysis for East Asia and the Pacific at the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
After working in the Clinton administration, Suettinger joined the Brookings Institution as a senior analyst.
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