Abstract
This chapter investigates the fragmentation of media and political discourse on South Korea’s independent deployment of the Cheonghae unit to the Strait of Hormuz. Based on the empirical evidence from five major South Korean newspaper outlets, this study reveals that the South Korean government’s preemptive securitization presents a wide gap between locutionary and perlocutionary speech acts between the state, civil society, and political parties on three distinct yet interconnected issues – South Korea’s military deployment, Middle East policy, and the future of Korean peninsula – all of which are ultimately tied to the question of its commitment to US alliance.
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