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Trump Uses Tariff Threats to Pressure South Korea Investment Deal

President Donald Trump warned that tariffs on South Korean exports could be raised without taking formal policy action. The warning shifted attention to how compliance under a long-term investment agreement is judged, with tariff pressure applied through interpretation rather than enforcement.

January 28, 20265 min read

The Age of Conditional Alliances

Postwar stability functioned as an insurance system financed by the United States and anchored by its industrial base.

January 21, 202610 min read

The U.S. Security State Is Losing the Competition for People

The United States built a security state to control immigration and identity. Nordic democracies built welfare states to distribute risk. Greenland’s decision between them signals the rise of model competition in the 21st century.

January 9, 202611 min read

The Permission Line and South Korea’s Nuclear Submarine Ambition

Between permission and power lies the new frontier of alliance politics. South Korea’s pursuit of nuclear propulsion tests not only technology, but the architecture of trust built over seventy years.

October 30, 202513 min read

Inside the Gyeongju Summit and the End of Globalization

As tariffs replace treaties and alliances harden into leverage, APEC 2025 reveals a Pacific world sustained not by faith in free trade but by the management of division.

October 27, 202513 min read

Gyeongju and the Fragile Future of Global Cooperation

As the world fragments into rival blocs, South Korea’s APEC chairmanship becomes a test of whether dialogue alone can still hold the system together.

October 21, 20258 min read

Busan’s Future Depends on Systems, Not Skylines

Once the engine of Korea’s industrial ascent, Busan now risks becoming its most modern relic. The city’s revival depends not on new projects or incentives, but on building a system that aligns talent, energy, and data under coherent governance.

October 10, 202517 min read

How Trump’s Insurrection Act Gambit Redefines U.S. Democracy and Federal Power

The Trump administration’s use of the Insurrection Act and National Guard reveals a deeper constitutional shift—how law itself becomes a tool of control.

October 8, 202514 min read

Japan’s Rightward Drift and Korea’s Pragmatic Response

As Japan’s conservatism turns inward and South Korea’s diplomacy grows more self-aware, East Asia enters a fragile era where stability is measured not by peace, but by control.

October 5, 202512 min read

South Korea’s Far Right: An Opportunistic Hybrid in Global Extremism

South Korea’s far right is less an ideology than a fusion—rooted in Cold War anti-communism, evangelical networks, and borrowed narratives from the U.S. and Japan.

September 15, 202514 min read

South Korea Targets Prosecutors and Finance Ministry in Dual Reform Push

South Korea is moving to dismantle the Prosecutors’ Office and divide the Finance Ministry, aiming to end two long-standing monopolies of authority.

September 9, 20257 min read

Why Hundreds of Korean Workers Were Detained at a Georgia Battery Plant

The Ellabell raid highlights a structural flaw in U.S. policy: labor shortages in advanced manufacturing collide with restrictive visa rules, leaving investors and workers in a legal trap.

September 7, 20259 min read

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