mission for a comment on Biden’s decision not to send American troops to Ukraine but did not receive a reply. VOA’s Korean Service contacted North Korea’s U.N. determination to defend its allies is stronger today than it has ever been precisely because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.” troops in ROK, I doubt” North Korea would draw rash conclusions about taking aggressive steps toward South Korea.Īnd Evans Revere, a former State Department official with extensive experience negotiating with North Korea, said, “U.S. Michael O’Hanlon, director of research in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, said, “With 30,000 U.S. Other experts contacted by VOA were less concerned about the U.S.-South Korean alliance. South Korea’s official name is the Republic of Korea (ROK). Protesters lie down on the ground during a rally against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, near the Russian Embassy in Seoul, Feb. “It may assess an opportunity and will surely use political warfare and influence operations to try to subvert the ROK government and the Koreans in the South to make them question the alliance and the U.S. “We should expect the North to try to continue to break the alliance,” David Maxwell, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said. nuclear force defense as “hostile policy.” military presence in South Korea, joint military exercises, and a security guarantee bolstered by U.S. North Korea has long sought to break Seoul’s alliance with Washington. is, however, bound by a Mutual Defense Treaty that obliges it to help defend South Korea against an external aggression.ĭespite the treaty, experts are concerned that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Biden’s decision not to send American forces to defend Ukraine could motivate Pyongyang to reinvigorate its efforts to weaken the alliance between the U.S. soldiers from the 25th Infantry Division's 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team and South Korean soldiers take part in joint military exercise at the Rodriquez Multi-Purpose Range Complex in Pocheon, north of Seoul, Feb. defense against an attack on its territory.įILE - U.S. Ukraine is not a member of NATO, the U.S.-led security alliance of European and North American countries, and it does not have a bilateral security treaty with the U.S. troops to defend Ukraine on February 24, the day when Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized “a special military operation,” essentially declaring war on Ukraine. President Joe Biden reiterated his promise not to send U.S. and South Korea.Īs Russia’s invasion of Ukraine raged into its sixth day on Wednesday, Ukrainians continue to fight alone to defend the capital of Kyiv, without the support of a military force from neighboring European countries or the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) from 2011 to 2013, said, North Korean leader “Kim Jong Un will seize on the Ukraine-Russia crisis to test the alliance” of the U.S. Army General James Thurman, commander of U.S. Experts say the Russian invasion of Ukraine is likely to spur North Korea to take a bolder stance in pursuing its long-term goal of fracturing South Korea’s alliance with the United States.
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