US-ROK Global Strategic Partnership in the Indo-Pacific - By Kayla Orta

The Indo-Pacific in the World March 2024 US-ROK Global Strategic Partnership in the Indo-Pacific Policy Opportunities, Challenges, and Pitfalls By Kayla Orta Executive Summary The alliance between the United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK) plays an increasingly important role in US foreign policy in the Indo-Pacific region. [...] At the 2023 Biden-Yoon Summit, the two nations celebrated the 70th anniversary and proclaimed the triumphs of the past with an eye towards the future of the expanded US-ROK Global Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. [...] US-ROK Global Strategic Partnership in the Indo-Pacific March 2024 3 Introduction competition between the United States and China and the burgeoning Russia-North The alliance between the United States and the Korean arms trades serve as reminders of Republic of Korea (ROK) plays an increasingly the importance of close security cooperation important role in US foreign policy in the Indo- between th. [...] As the Beyond these security challenges, there is both United States and the ROK look towards the political drive and appetite for the expansion of future of the alliance, both opportunities and the US and ROK collaboration in nontraditional challenges lay on the horizon. [...] from the revisions of the North’s Nuclear Posture to drone incursions into the South and, most 1) US-ROK Nuclear Consultative Group recently, the redesignation of South Korea in The United States and the Republic of Korea the North Korean constitution—poses ongoing continue to face the challenge of the DPRK’s challenges to the US-ROK defense partnership.