Anxiety about U.S. security commitments is opening conversations in Seoul about reprocessing spent fuel from power reactors to extract plutonium or enrich uranium

Japanese observers have become increasingly apprehensive of deepening division within Korea, with growing worries about an absence of order.

A potential change of government in Seoul could challenge the endurance of the institutions of trilateral security cooperation so assiduously built in 2024.

Veteran officials, including former Trump administration officials, anticipate that the president-elect will want to return to negotiations.

The evidence of a deepening military axis between North Korea and Russia has been mounting in recent days, causing alarm from Kyiv to Seoul.

Amid Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio’s decision to not run for re-election, the sustainability of improved Korea-Japan relations and the future of bilateral ties is uncertain.