[학술논문] Inter-Korean Relations in 2025: The Lee Administration's Pragmatic Recalibration after Yoon

...structurally constrained by alliance modernization, North Korea's hardened doctrine, and heightened great-power competition. The review surveys domestic political developments, the changing dynamics of the US–ROK alliance, trilateral security coordination, and relations with Russia and China in the context of inter-Korean relations. By situating domestic political change within alliance and great-power dynamics...

[학술논문] 한미상호방위조약 체결을 위한 이승만 정부의 협상전략

...Government's bargaining strategy for the ROK-US Mutual Defense Treaty. The currently critical security issues, such as the ROK Navy Ship Cheonan sinking event, 2015 years scheduled wartime operational control transition, the new vision strategic alliance 2015, demand realignment of the ROK-US alliance role and relationship. To accomplish this, the alliance's origins and the change process since has...

[학술논문] 북한의 남한 군사연구 현황과 특징

...it is evidenced that researches on the US military affairs were made more intensively than the ROK counterpart. Also, a majority of critical researches on the US and ROK military alliance have been made. It is so because researches on the the ROK military affairs made by North Korea have put the focal points on the ROK which is militarily subordinate to the US. It was the mid and end of the 1960s that...

[학술논문] 데탕트의 쇠퇴와 남-북-미 관계의 동학 -판문점 도끼만행사건을 중심으로-

...intended the withdrawal of the US troops from the ROK and the murdering of two US Army officers was a symbolic gesture. Besides, they wanted to weaken the ROK-US Alliance, and to gauge the US willingness to maintain the international détente. The ROK and US reacted with military strength increase at the early stage, but this coercive effect didn't last long because the US was much conscious of détente...

[학술논문] A Study on the Need to Actively Expand the ROK-U.S. Alliance to the Indo-Pacific Region and the Need to Upgrade the Jeju Naval Base as a Missile Defense Base: Focusing on the development of Regional I

...the ROK-US alliance to the Indo-Pacific. First, it should be made clear that South Korea is concerned about the excessive number of US troops stationed in South Korea, and that its focus on the Indo-Pacific region does not affect the defense of North Korea. Second, joint research and development of weapons systems with the United States should be carried out while expanding the ROK-US alliance to the...

[해외] A blueprint for a US-South Korea combined multi-domain task force

...evolution of the US-Republic of Korea (ROK) alliance. The challenge for the alliance is to enhance deterrence while accounting for changing strategic and operational realities. In the latest US National Defense Strategy (NDS), Washington outlined its expectations that Seoul leverage its robust defense industry to assume greater responsibility for its own defense within the alliance, while continuing...

[해외] Implications of Chinese Influence Operations for South Korea and the US-ROK Alliance

China’s People’s Liberation Army employs a variety of strategies to influence ROK public opinion, interfere in ROK elections, and seek to weaken the US-ROK alliance. With a special focus on the potential impact of artificial intelligence on PLA influence operations targeting South Korea, Washington and Seoul should improve coordination to mitigate these efforts and their potential impacts.

[해외] The Impact of the US National Security Strategy’s Blind Spot on North Korea

The latest US National Security Strategy (NSS) reflects a shift in how Washington directs its strategic attention. China remains at the center of the document, but the omission of any reference to North Korean denuclearization is particularly notable, especially since North Korea was treated as a central security concern in previous US doctrine, such as the 2017 NSS. The silence on this issue is not...

[국내] ‘적대적 두 국가론’ 이후 북한의 남한 관련 보도 변화 및 시사점

...relations between the US-North Korea, and in particular, North Korea is strengthening the structure of its narrative which undermines South Korea's status as a sovereign state on the Korean Peninsula. Specifically, articles related to South Korea have been reorganized into external military discussions that intensively criticize the ROK-US alliance and the deployment of US strategic assets, and South...

[국내] 북한 군사력 강화 정책의 딜레마

...Korea wants to show that by continuing to develop nuclear and strategic weapons, the cost to the ROK and the United States will increase over time. In particular, North Korea seems to be trying to make the most of the reality that additional sanctions against North Korea are difficult, considering that the US-China strategic competition will be prolonged. However, the North's strategy has several dilemmas...