For half a century, the alliance between the Republic of Korea and the United States has focused on the threat posed by North Korea. But today, as South Korea moves toward reconciliation with the North on the basis of a strong and credible deterrence, a new approach is required to guide the future of the alliance. South Korea and the United States need a strategic plan that defines shared objectives and the means for achieving them. This plan would identify possible problems that could occur en route to these objectives and suggest how to avert them, plus what the two countries would need to do if the problems were to happen anyway. A strategic plan would help guide the current discussions on the future of the alliance. It would give direction to the alliance and provide both Korean and American audiences with a clearer vision of why we maintain an alliance and what we gain from it. Such a plan might have helped avert the current nuclear weapons crisis with North Korea; now, it is needed to resolve the crisis. It should identify a mutually agreeable approach to propose to North Korea as part of multilateral discussions, an approach agreed to by the other regional players. Developing such a plan will not be easy because Seoul and Washington do not view some critical issues in the same manner. But the effort to describe and explain these differences may resolve some of them and prepare the way for adjusting the U. S. military presence in Korea and creating a peace regime on the Korean Peninsula.


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    Titel :

    ROK-U.S. Alliance: Where Is It Headed


    Beteiligte:
    K. D. Shin (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2003


    Format / Umfang :

    5 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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