This research is a project that seeks policy alternatives that draw the most rational bilateral
agreements to various issues related to the full-scale adjustment process of the ROK-U.S. alliance.
The research, first of all, makes large-scale prospects of changes in the U.S. strategies toward
Northeast Asia and the Korea-U.S. alliance, and then subsequently examines the Korea-U.S. joint
defense system preparing for the conversion of wartime operational control. Furthermore, the
research examines the strategic flexibility of the USFK operational guidelines to analyze the
positive and negative aspects of strategic flexibility and to investigate mechanisms that control
the entering and exiting of the USFK and its guidelines to negotiation strategies, etc. It also
analyzes, from a long-term perspective, plans to enhance interoperability between alliances, in
connection to the 2020 national defense reform. Finally, this project analyzes legal and diplomatic
issues related to alliance regulation, such as issues regarding share of defense expenses, direction
of SOFA re-amendments, pollution in restoration bases, etc. Each study focuses on analyzing practical
policy implications to make itself useful as a reference of ROK-U.S. alliance regulation, so that the
next government may use it as a guide to establishing a future-oriented ROK-U.S. regulation.
No : 2008-01
Publishing Company : The Sejong Institute
Date of Publication : 2008.2.29.
Number Of Pages : 220 Page
Price : 17,000 Won