No. 311: Seoul’s Bolstered Defense Ambitions

Author(s): Linda Maduz, Névine Schepers
Series Editor(s): Benno Zogg, Julian Kamasa, Fabien Merz, Névine Schepers
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 311
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2022

Seoul is heavily investing in its defense capabilities. While the current government emphasizes that the US-South Korea alliance is central for the country’s security, the long-term strategic challenge will be to balance carefully relations with the US, but also with China and other regional actors in an increasingly volatile security environment. Hence, the importance of global partnerships is growing.

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