In a geopolitical landscape in which two camps oppose, the regions where these are in direct contact are particularly sensitive. This is the case of the Korean peninsula, where two states on the warfoot are faced.
by
Analysis. The political and military competition exacerbated between the United States and China since the Russian invasion of Ukraine has produced a cold war climate which forces the two Koreas to readjust their positioning, in this area where the two blocks are in contact. The North approaching China and Russia; the south of the United States and Japan.
The election, in March, to the presidency of South Korea, of the curator Yoon Seok-Youl and the visit, in May, in Seoul and Tokyo, of President Joe Biden, devoted a turnaround of politics South Korean foreign: whole alignment with the United States and warming links with Japan restoring all its vigor to the alliance between the three countries-distended during the presidency of Moon Jae-in, who had endeavored Maintain a fragile balance between China, Russia and the American ally.
Ouvrière ankle of the first meetings between Donald Trump and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, in 2018 and 2019, Mr. Moon had focused his policy on the stabilization of the situation of the peninsula. He failed, nevertheless preventing the 2017 crisis – following the sixth North Korean nuclear test – degenerating into a confrontation and starting the first dialogue at the highest level between the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ( RPDC), enemies for seventy years.
President Yoon, for his part, intends to break up with the policy of opening his predecessor and hold the Digée high in Pyongyang. Ready to strengthen bilateral sanctions in the event of a new nuclear test, he decided, as Washington asked, to intensify joint military exercises with the United States.
“pivot” north-Asia
During his visit to Korea and Japan, Joe Biden enjoined his two allies, cold during the presidency of Moon Jae-in, to end a quarrel fed by mutual resentment linked to the Japanese colonization (1910-1945). The dispute between the two major democracies of East Asia, military support points of the United States in the region (with 28,500 soldiers in the peninsula and nearly 50,000 in the archipelago), weakened the American strategy in the region .
Seoul and Tokyo have decided to resume their joint military exercises with the United States, suspended since 2017, and to relaunch the bilateral military intelligence sharing agreement, broken by Seoul, in 2019. The United States, the Korea and Japan also plan to strengthen their joint nuclear deterrent strategy (the American “nuclear umbrella”), put to sleep by President Moon in the hope of facilitating a rapprochement with Pyongyang.
You have 54.57% of this article to read. The continuation is reserved for subscribers.