The U.S.-Japan alliance and the U.S.-South Korea alliance: their origins, dilemmas, and structures

Article Abstract:

A comparison between the US-Japan alliance and the US-South Korean alliance was conducted. It revealed that both alliances have major differences in origin as well as in the problems encountered by the contracting nations. The US-Japan alliance was viewed as more loosely structured because of Japan's strong reluctance to fully commit to the alliance's provisions. The US-South Korean alliance was considered more tightly structured since the South Korean's have only shown their reluctance to commit on several occasions. However, the end of the Cold War and the rise of new military and political threats in the Northeast Asian region are slowly eroding the differences between the two alliances.

Analysis, International relations, Military aspects, Alliances, Alliances (Government relations), Korea, Northern Asia

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Time for a new U.S.-Japan security relationship

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The time is right for Japan and the US to reconsider their strategic relationship. The US-Japan security relationship was appropriate to the cold war era, but it is economically and diplomatically inappropriate that this relationship continues to dominate US-Japan interactions. The two governments should consider positive approaches to dismantling the security relationship which ensure that future ties have a solid basis which will withstand periods when national economic and security policies diverge.

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