Search results for: Jiso Yoon
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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...
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Sustaining an International Coalition of the Willing: Lessons from Japan’s and South Korea’s Response to Putin’s War in Ukraine
…nuclear-armed great power. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s re-invented “Global Korea” concept reorients Seoul’s strategic direction to align more closely with the U.S.-ROK Alliance and emphasizes a foreign policy…
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Japan-ROK: Old Grievances under New Leadership
…runners are Lee Jae-myung, the presidential candidate of the ruling Democratic Party, and Yoon Seok-youl, the candidate for the conservative People Power Party. The former is expected to stay the…
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Friends, Whether They Like It or Not: U.S.-ROK-Japan
…likely to be incoherent and insufficient compared to standardized procedures and mechanisms for cooperation between all three countries. Japan-Korea Relations The recent trilateral meeting between Prime Minister Kishida, President Yoon,…
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Path to Inter-Korean Development Cooperation
…by diplomatic relations or used as political leverage. The new development cooperation initiative for North Korea from the Yoon Suk-yeol regime, the ‘audacious plan’ is a comprehensive development cooperation and…