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Washington embraces an America First worldview that blends isolationism with U.S. primacy and pushes allies and partners to the margins.
After decades of diplomatic isolation, economic destitution and marginalisation in the post-Cold War era, North Korea is returning as a destabilising force.
The drivers for a South Korean lead role on the peninsula and a broader role for the alliance’s combined defense posture beyond it may be...
The U.S. push for allies to shoulder greater security burdens converges with South Korean efforts to deepen autonomy.
Americans may debate trade, tariffs, and troop deployments, but they agree that more nuclear weapons make the world less secure.
The full picture of the tariff and security negotiations may only become clear once the U.S. and Korea release mutual fact sheets or joint statements.
Despite shared accomplishments, the allies cannot count on previous cooperation alone to carry their relationship forward.
South Korea has long benefited from strategic ambiguity on Taiwan, but the narrowing space between the U.S. and China makes this increasingly difficult.
The Kim regime has weathered adversity before, but today’s convergence of inflation, fiscal opacity, and decay poses deeper, more structural challenges.
The Trump administration’s AI action plan appears to be a whole-of-government effort to accelerate the growth and proliferation of U.S. AI technology.
Trump’s disbelief in the value of U.S. forces in South Korea is long-standing and unchanged, and may impact the upcoming summit.
Where U.S. domestic industrial capacity has withered, foreign investment could intervene to halt further degradation of the U.S. shipbuilding industry.
