[현안분석] Managing Decline? NATO’s Uneasy Future After the 2025 Summit

...about whether President Trump would even attend the Summit, given his abrupt departure from the recent G7 meeting. Even if President Trump did attend, these contentious issues set the stage for a high-stakes gathering. All things considered, the Summit was portrayed as a success by NATO members, yielding a succinct Hague Summit Declaration that affirmed NATO’s collective defense under...

[학술논문] Pyongyang’s Defiance on Denuclearization Poses Challenge For Yet Another U.S. Administration

...relations had returned to the tense period before the 2018 Panmunjom inter-Korean summit declaration, which Moon had proclaimed at the time as a breakthrough in reducing tensions on the peninsula. Pyongyang dictated conditions that Seoul must adhere to, including suspending combined military drills with Washington and reducing South Korea’s planned military modernization plans. Kim left responsibility...

[학술논문] Convergence and Tensions in the ROK-U.S. Alliance: Policy Differences Require Deft Alliance Management

...are notable differences between Washington and Seoul regarding an end-of-war declaration, wartime operational control (OPCON) transition, North Korean policy, an expanded South Korean security role of the Indo-Pacific, and improving South Korean-Japanese relations. The Moon administration has called for reducing UN and U.S. sanctions, signing an end-of-war declaration, and providing additional concessions...