U.S.-South Korea relations

The U.S. president will be visiting South Korea and Japan from May 20-24.

Amid supply chain worries and high-tech competition, there has been a distinct shift in the tenor of the business relationship between Seoul and Washington.

Seoul is walking a fine line, carefully calibrating its cooperation with U.S. initiatives in the Indo-Pacific.

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman is making the rounds in East Asia, with one notable omission from her itinerary.

Every president will face the exact same difficulty: To advance North Korea policy, Seoul needs to have all the main players on its side.

Testing Seoul’s embrace of the United States’ regional strategy.

The Indo-Pacific focus of the Biden-Moon joint statement was notable.

Efforts at denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula will face complex political calculations at play in the U.S. and South Korea.

Cyber risks will only continue to grow as more of our daily lives become digital and interconnected.

Washington needs to build up the alliance as a partnership involving mutually beneficial and equally important military, economic, social, and cultural aspects. 

The shootings of six Asian Americans brought deadly urgency to the issue of anti-Asian sentiment in the United States.