Without effective oversight, the military may undermine or overthrow civilian authority, whether it be through coups or other methods of intervention.
A motivation behind Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru’s push for an ‘Asian NATO’ may be developing a security relationship with South Korea.
As Japan and South Korea share similar values, they would benefit from strengthening bilateral ties.
A unified, bipartisan, approach will aid in counterbalancing China’s growing influence in the region.
Once South Korea starts to feel the full impact of its declining birth rate, politicians and the public may be more welcoming to refugee resettlement.
The US alliance with South Korea will be a security linchpin of the Korean Peninsula and the Indo-Pacific region for the coming decades.
If stagnation in inter-Korean cooperation is to be bypassed, there needs to be a new approach that goes beyond leveraging economic support for denuclearisation.
Timothy Rich talks about recognition of Taiwan, South Korean perceptions of refugees, and the advantages and challenges of collecting public opinion data.
South Korea’s extraordinary ascent is unlikely to be a temporary phenomenon, but the political direction of its soft power is yet to be determined.
Reunification should be conceptualized as not just the end of conflict, but also as the start of new sources of tension.
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