Without a commensurate education and publicity campaign, the Washington Declaration will never address the broader, underlying sense of vulnerability ingrained in the language, geography, history and culture.
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Yoon’s performance has been marked by a glaring gap between rhetoric and implementation: a president that nominally supports pro-US policies, but in practice is caught cursing US lawmakers on a hot mic; a president that nominally supports freedom, but in practice stumbles in support of Ukraine; a president that nominally stands for international norms and the rule of law, but in practice sparks a debate on securing nuclear weapons.
The “Audacious Initiative” - South Korea’s key policy platform to address the plethora of problems that is North Korea.
We rarely think deeply about the term middle power, and are prone to ignore its influence, so could using the term blind analysts to changes in South Korea’s foreign policy?
Two decades ago, South Korea was rarely called a middle power. Today, it invites ridicule to suggest South Korea is anything but a middle power.
There are a plethora of studies on South Korea as a middle power. Some argue Korea needs to change to fit the term, some reinvent the term to fit Korea, and still others just use the term without questioning.
In a worst case scenario, the Camp David trilateral summit may ultimately be significant not as the beginning of a new era, but rather as a point marking the end of an old era
South Korea needs to build domestic constituency that supports the India-Korea bilateral relationship in the longer-term. It needs to go beyond the rhetoric.
The National Security Strategy released by the Yoon Administration is not about national strategy but about an ongoing domestic political competition.
