J.R. Kim | President, KCPC 1. Introduction The 1953 Armistice Agreement has prevented renewed full-scale war on the Korean Peninsula for more than seven decades, but it has never been transformed into a permanent peace regime. Instead, the peninsula has remained characterized by military confrontation and mutual distrust. North Korea’s advancing nuclear and missile capabilities, intensifying strategic competition between the United States and China, and shifts in Russia

J.R. Kim | President, KCPC 1. Introduction As the Lee Jae-myung administration marks its first year in office, assessments of changes in South Korea’s foreign policy and the future trajectory of the ROK–U.S. alliance have become increasingly active. Since President Lee’s election in June last year, a central question among both domestic and international policy communities has been how the new administration would manage its alliance with the United States and recalibra