Signal ROK-US global comprehensive strategic alliance and regularised trilateral security cooperation with Japan

Summary

The report records that Korea and the United States formed a global comprehensive strategic alliance. Security cooperation among Korea, the United States and Japan has also been regularised. These steps responded to rising security threats on the Korean Peninsula. The threats cited are deepening strategic competition between the US and China, stronger military cooperation between North Korea and Russia, and North Korea's advancing nuclear and missile programmes. The alliance was strengthened and trilateral security cooperation institutionalised as a result. Looking ahead, the report names modernising the alliance for the second Trump administration as the main foreign policy issue.