Reports from South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) state North Korea has decided to deploy 12,000 troops to Russia to support its military operations against Ukraine.
As a middle power, South Korea should support Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, but it has to date provided only limited support. Why?
North Korea destroyed roads leading to South Korea, and the South Korean military fired retaliatory warning shots. Military tensions on the peninsula are escalating.
Pressure is increasing on South Korea to conduct or participate in Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPs) in the Taiwan Strait, following precedents set by other U.S. allies and partners.
While much attention has been given to South Korea's relationships with the United States, Japan, Europe (NATO), Australia, and ASEAN countries, India remains an underutilized partner— a potential missing anchor in South Korea's Indo-Pacific ambitions.
Concern is growing that President Yoon Suk-yeol’s deepening of ties with the U.S. and Japan increases medium-term risk.
Sam Roggeveen's Echidna Strategy argues Australia has the potential to act more independently - could a Korea also follow an echidna strategy?
South Korea’s response to North Korea’s balloons of trash is representative of the creative stagnation in foreign policy thinking.
Here are just a few points to bring up the next time someone says you don’t speak Korean well enough, or you didn’t study enough international relations
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.
