Search results for: Jiso Yoon
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Japan’s Stance on a United Korea: Ambivalence or Realpolitik?
...the increasing hostilities with some neighbors; South Korea’s election of the conservative Yoon Suk-yeol as the country’s 20th president, which has raised hopes and fears; and North Korea’s resumption of...
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Seoul’s Changing Indo-Pacific Manifesto and India: Policy Prescriptions for India-ROK Ties
...forefront challenges that Seoul must overcome to raise its global profile. Panda explores the potential impact of the Yoon administration’s initiative of aligning with the US Indo-Pacific strategy on the...
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South Korea’s Foreign Policy in Changing Times: Reversing Course?
Abstract: The tragedy currently unfolding in Ukraine may be a symptom of new dynamics in global geopolitics. The changing balance of power epitomized by the rise of China...
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What to Make of Kim Yo Jong’s Verbal Attack of South Korea’s Defense Minister
...new South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol has explicitly taken a hawkish stance on North Korea and showed more conservative responses to the North’s missile tests. Thus Seoul’s Defense Ministry is...
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North Korea Is Preparing to Confront the US in 2022
...and possibly even nuclear tests in response to U.S. sanctions, the upcoming South Korea-U.S. joint military exercises, and the potential victory of South Korean main opposition presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol...
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Not a Sovereignty Issue: Understanding the Transition of Military Operational Control between the United States and South Korea
...of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and ROK Minister of National Defense Yoon Kwang Ung agreed that wartime OPCON of ROK forces under a U.S.-led command would be handed over sometime between...
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Toward Crisis Management in East Asia’s Seas
Maritime disputes in in the East and South China Seas escalated in 2013 and remain locked in a dangerous cycle of action and reaction with the attendant danger...