2025FEB10

Issue Briefs

North Korea’s Military Behavior in 2024 and Choices for 2025

By Yang Uk

[Issue Brief Executive Summary] Yang Uk

Tags : GPS, Hwasong-19, ICBM, Kim Jong-un, North Korea, North Korea-Russia ties, South Korea, USFK

2025FEB05

Issue Briefs

Prospects for the U.S. National Security Policies in Trump’s Second Term and the Realignment of the ROK-U.S. Alliance

By Yang Uk

[Issue Brief Executive Summary] Yang Uk

Tags : MAGA, NATO, ROK-U.S. Alliance, SMA, South Korea, Trump, U.S. Presidential Election, USFK

2024JUN19

Blog/Op-ed

[Korea JoongAng Daily] How Korea can prepare for Trump 2.0

By Yoon Young-kwan

Yoon Young-kwan, Chairman

Tags : Joe Biden, Korean Peninsula policy, North Korea, Trump 2.0, U.S. troops in Korea., USFK, Xi Jinping

2023NOV10

Blog/Op-ed

[The Chosun Ilbo Op-ed] We Need to Beware the Return of ‘America First’ (November 10)

By Choi Kang

CHOI Kang, President

Tags : "Spirit of Camp David", A2AD, America, Freedom Caucus, NATO, ROK-U.S. Alliance, THAAD, Trump, USFK

2022MAY31

Publications

South Korean Public Opinion on ROK-U.S. Bilateral Ties

By J. James Kim, Kang Chungku, Ham Geon Hee

[Asan Report] J. James Kim, Kang Chungku, Ham Geon Hee

Tags : BMD, Korean Peninsula, President Biden, Quad, ROK - U.S, strong military, USFK, Yoon Suk-yeol

2022JAN21

Issue Briefs

How to Understand North Korea’s Demand for the Withdrawal of ROK-U.S. …

[Issue Brief] The Asan Institute for Policy Studies

Tags : Declaration of the End of War, denuclearization, Hostile policy, North Korea, North Korea's nuclear threat, ROK-US, USFK

2021APR24

Blog/Op-ed

[The Chosun Ilbo Op-ed] South Korea Must Secure Korean Version of MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)

By Choi Kang

CHOI Kang, Vice President(Acting President)

Tags : CVID, MAD, ROK-US Alliance, US-China strategic, USFK

2019FEB22

Issue Briefs

South Korean Attitudes Toward the U.S.-ROK Alliance and USFK

By Scott A. Snyder, Ellen Swicord, J. James Kim, Kang Chungku, Ko Yumi

[Issue Brief] Scott Snyder, Ellen Swicord, J. James Kim, Kang Chungku, Yumi Ko

Tags : Issue Brief, South Korea, U.S.-ROK, USFK

2013SEP23

Issue Briefs

Budget Driven Defense: Implications of Potential Shifts in US Defense Posture for the Korean Peninsula and the Asia-Pacific in …

By J. James Kim

Sequestration and defense spending cuts in the US are a reality that South Korea must begin planning for.

Tags : Asia-Pacific, Budget Control Act, budget driven defense, DoD, DR307, DRP2020, LPP, North Korean military capability, Regional Issue, SCMR, SMA, US defense posture, US military, USFK, YRP