As China revises its plan for self-reliance on technological development, tensions could rise around structural dilemmas this presents to South Korea.

Seoul's careful management of the complex triangular relations in the region takes place against a backdrop of growing global uncertainty.

The alliance faces a familiar challenge in a more complex environment: maintaining credible deterrence while adapting to evolving threats.

Despite the instability that followed martial law, civilian trust in the military, elections, and the national government reached record highs.

Throughout the year, shipbuilding stood out as the area where South Korean firms’ strategic positioning most clearly corresponded with U.S. priorities.

The two nations are steeped in the same ideological brew of ultra-nationalism, hyper-militarism, and illiberalism.