Abstract
This study mainly combines the historical evolution of the Korea-U.S. alliance (vertical) with international politics’ current situation dynamics (horizontal). It explores the correlation between the transformation direction of the Korea-U.S. alliance and the change of the Korean Peninsula’s geographical pattern from the composite perspective of the asymmetry between big and small countries. This study mainly follows the two logical lines: one is to comprehensively consider the “invariance” law of the alliance transformation by dialectically analyzing both the alliance’s external environment and South Korea’s internal affairs, and analyze the specific manifestation of the alliance's quantitative changes and the impact of the transformation direction on the future geopolitical map of the Korean Peninsula during the current Moon Jae-in period; the second is to estimate the gradual changes of the geopolitical mechanics in Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia with the breakthrough of the DPRK’s nuclear force and analyze China’s future coping strategies. Overall, the effects brought by Donald John Trump to a certain extent dispersed the alliance based on traditional American values. Even in 2021, under the background of Biden’s multilateral solid return, the ROK-US alliance returns to stabilize. It is a non-ignorable aspect that American hegemony will decline in the future, which is also the internal cause of the qualitative changes of the direction of the ROK-US alliance in post -Trump period and the safety structure in Northeast Asia.
Highlights
This study mainly combines the historical evolution of the Korea-U.S alliance with international politics’ current situation dynamics
As early interviewed by Fox, Moon Jae-in affirmed that “the ROK-US alliance played an irreplaceable role in the Korean peninsula”, “even if the ROK and the DPRK are unified, the ROK needs U.S troops to stay” [8]
Would the United States have the resolve to engage in a nuclear confrontation with North Korea to ensure the security of its Allies if either DPRK-ROK or DPRK-Japan relations were in conflict and chaos? Second, how does Biden balance the primacy of U.S interests with a recommitment to South Korea’s security? Third, will the US make defection more likely because the US has paid less and less for its allies? Only when the above questions are definitively answered can we find out the causes and solutions of the current new dilemma between the US and the ROK
Summary
The Logic of the Transformation of ROK-U.S Alliance’s Influence on the Geopolitical Pattern of Korean Peninsula. Email address: To cite this article: Meifang Xue, Dunqiu Li. The Logic of the Transformation of ROK-U.S Alliance’s Influence on the Geopolitical Pattern of Korean Peninsula. Journal of Political Science and International Relations.
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