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

...Lee pledged to pursue a pragmatic and de-escalatory approach toward North Korea, his administration remained 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...

[학술논문] Lessons from Russia's Nuclear Forward‐Deployment to Belarus for the USA and South Korea

...two years, whereas the USA has not even engaged in discussions on a similar option for South Korea, which has faced an existential nuclear threat from North Korea. This article seeks to extract key insights from Belarus's experience and propose corresponding policy implications for the US–South Korea alliance. In particular, the USA must soberly assess whether the current North Korean nuclear threat...

[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

...ROK-US alliance to the Indo-Pacific region. Third, South Korea needs to lay the groundwork for South Korea to secure stable maritime transport routes and receive stable energy in its trade while expanding the ROK-US alliance to the Indo-Pacific region. It is also important for Korea to upgrade its naval base on Jeju Island as a missile defense system amid the expansion of the Korea-U.S. alliance. Jeju...

[학술논문] Signing a Peace Agreement: Issues for Consideration

...Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission would cease to exist. At the same time, necessary security mechanisms would stay, however. The US-ROK alliance would remain; US forces would stay; and the United States would continue to provide a nuclear umbrella to South Korea. The most difficult issue in negotiating a peace agreement is the issue of replacing the Northern Limit Line (NLL) with a new maritime...

[학술논문] 해방기 영화운동과 조선영화협단

...members of Chosun Film Alliance, which became weaker because of the confrontations between the left and the right as well as the suppression of the US military government. Raising a hare in regard to post liberation issues such as the problem of pro-Japanese, they were involved in conducting campaigns in the name of Chosun Film Actors' Company. This movement ended when the 2nd US-USSR Joint Commission...

[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] The Iran war should boost security cooperation by US Pacific allies like Japan, the Philippines and South Korea

The US war with Iran is shaking up security in the Indo-Pacific. Earlier this month, it was reported that the US had begun pulling THAAD and Patriot missile-defence systems from South Korea to boost its defences in the Middle East – even as North Korea continued cruise missile tests. The Pentagon also redirected around 2500 marines and an amphibious warship from Japan to the Arabian Sea – at a time...

[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

... merely rhetorical, but seems to reflect a deeper reordering of US priorities and a growing willingness to shift the burdens of deterrence and crisis management onto regional allies. In the case of the Korean Peninsula, that burden increasingly falls on South Korea. The result is not a managed transition toward regional stability, but a security environment that is growing more volatile, less predictable...

[해외] The Iran war risks triggering a new wave of nuclear proliferation

...such as Turkey, Poland and South Korea seems to be shifting towards support for developing domestic nuclear capabilities, as the lessons of the Cold War and the devastating consequences of nuclear weapons fade from living memory. This comes amid rising doubts over Washington’s ability to uphold its extended deterrence and security commitments to allies. In particular, the US’s reported redeployment of...