Lt. Col. Jacques L. Fuqua Jr., USA (Ret.), is a former Northeast Asia foreign area officer who now serves as the chief international officer and director of international programs and services at Indiana State University. The author of Nuclear Endgame: The Need to Engage North Korea and numerous journal and newspaper articles on Korean and U.S.-Japanese security issues, Fuqua also served as the director of international engagement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and associate director of the East Asian Studies Center at Indiana University. He lives in Terre Haute, Indiana.