South Korea's ever-closer relations with NATO: Intersecting and varying motives of South Korea's Moon Jae-in and Yoon Suk-yeol administrations

Eric J. Ballbach

No 4/2025, SWP Comments from Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), German Institute for International and Security Affairs

Abstract: Driven by both political camps in Seoul, relations between South Korea and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have deepened significantly since their initiation in 2005. While this intensified relationship was shaped to a large extent by geopolitical developments and increasing security concerns, it also reflects the respective priorities and motives of the different South Korean administrations. With another change in administration in South Korea looming, it is important to understand these priorities, and where and why the different administrations' motivations driving the country's relations with NATO intersect and diverge.

Keywords: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); Ban Ki-moon; Yoon Suk-yeol; Moon Jae-in; Republic of Korea (ROK); inter-Korea relations; Russia's war against Ukraine; Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN); U.S.-China conflict (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.18449/2025C04

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