[학술논문] A Strategic Cooperation between the ROK and the US under the New Operational Cooperation Design
...maintaining a strong bilateral alliance with the United States has been the key focus of South Korea’s alliance strategy, though not always solid. The alliance has been central to the national security and economy of the Republic of Korea. It has played pivotal role in deterring the North Korean threat and in contributing to political and economic stability in South Korea and even Northeast Asia as...
[학술논문] ROK-USA Alliance for Consolidating Peace Condition in the Korean Peninsula: Evaluation and Vision
The alliance of the Republic of Korea (ROK or South Korea) and the United States of America (or US) was brought as a result of the Korean War. To South Korea, the war was to defend freedom and democracy with democratic countries including US, on the other side, to North Korea, it was to spread the communism revolution by invading South Korea. The original alliance of both South Korea and US was military...
[학술논문] 독자적 억제전략이 해답: 북한 3차 핵실험에 대한 10문 10답
...experts. For us today whether willing or not, there is no other way but to suspend ‘the deactivation of CFC’ firstly, set the national prepared posture against NK’s various complex provocations, deter and respond to them properly, and move up the free unification to our best. For this end, above all, we need to encompass neighboring Big Fours, especially ‘ROK-US alliance’ and...
[학술논문] Russia’s Policy on Nuclear Proliferation and National Unification on the Korean Peninsula
...power sharing a 17-Km border with North Korea, Russia has a keen interest in Korean affairs. The future of Korea is of great concern to Russia both because of the Korean peninsula’s geostrategic importance and South Korea’s alliance relationship with the United States. This article addresses three primary questions: (i) How has Russia’s Korea policy evolved over the years? (ii) What...
[학술논문] Transforming Korea-US Defenses: The Agenda Ahead
...guarantees to its allies. These new worries build on deeper difficulties between the United States and the Republic of South Korea (ROK) over what they need for their joint defenses against Pyongyang in the face of the evolving threat from the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea (DPRK). These troubles encompass Washington’s plans to sharplyreduce the U.S. military presence in the ROK from...