{"id":1922574,"date":"2023-05-02T04:42:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T08:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/has-joe-biden-repaired-u-s-relations-with-south-korea\/"},"modified":"2023-05-02T04:45:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T08:45:36","slug":"has-joe-biden-repaired-u-s-relations-with-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/has-joe-biden-repaired-u-s-relations-with-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Joe Biden Repaired U.S. Relations with South Korea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhas-joe-biden-repaired-u-s-relations-with-south-korea%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1922574&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>U.S.-ROK Relations Strained Over Spying Scandal<\/h2>\n<h3>Introduction<\/h3>\n<p>U.S. relations with the Republic of Korea (ROK) have been experiencing severe strains over the past several years. That pattern reached a new level of intensity in April 2023 when leaked Pentagon documents indicated that the United States had been spying on its longtime ally. <\/p>\n<h3>The Fallout<\/h3>\n<p>That revelation likely did not come as a great surprise to President Yoon Suk-yeol\u2019s government. Washington has been caught conducting surveillance on numerous allies over the decades. Nevertheless, the latest revelation put Yoon in an awkward position. Korea\u2019s opposition Democratic Party immediately exploited the situation, issuing a statement condemning Washington\u2019s behavior as a \u201cclear infringement\u201d of the ROK\u2019s sovereignty and accusing Yoon of overseeing \u201clax\u201d security policies. The timing of this scandal also could scarcely have been worse, coming barely two weeks before Yoon\u2019s scheduled summit with Joe Biden. <\/p>\n<h3>Biden&#8217;s Response<\/h3>\n<p>Biden moved to repair the damage as much as possible and to discourage Seoul from pursuing a foreign policy that seemed increasingly independent from Washington\u2019s goals. U.S. leaders were growing concerned that the ROK was flirting with acquiring an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/war-in-ukraine-may-drive-indo-pacific-nations-to-acquiring-nuclear-weapons\/\" title=\"War in Ukraine May Drive Indo-Pacific Nations to Acquiring Nuclear Weapons\">independent nuclear deterrent<\/a> to reduce the country\u2019s reliance on the United States for its security. <\/p>\n<h3>The Main Issue<\/h3>\n<p>The main source of discord is policy toward the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC). As Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-says-it-is-ready-for-negotiations-with-iran\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Says It Is Ready for Negotiations With Iran\">administration attempted<\/a> to do, the Biden administration seeks to enlist South Korea in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/has-joe-biden-repaired-u-s-relations-with-south-korea\/\" title=\"Has Joe Biden Repaired U.S. Relations with South Korea?\">de facto containment policy directed<\/a> against Beijing. <\/p>\n<h3>The Challenge<\/h3>\n<p>Such major differences between Washington and Seoul about relations with China mean that Biden\u2019s concessions at the recent summit will have only limited beneficial effect. The ROK is not about to enlist in a U.S. crusade against China, especially regarding the issue of defending Taiwan. Despite Biden\u2019s best efforts, the joint summit declaration merely puts a band-aid on a festering wound in the bilateral alliance. <\/p>\n<h3>About the Author<\/h3>\n<p>A 19FortyFive Contributing Editor, Dr. Ted Galen Carpenter is a senior fellow at the Randolph Bourne Institute and a senior fellow at the Libertarian Institute. He also served in various policy positions during a 37-year career at the Cato Institute. Dr. Carpenter is the author of 13 books and more than 1,200 articles on international affairs. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/project-veritas-strips-cnn-naked\/\" title=\"Project Veritas Strips CNN Naked\">latest book<\/a> is Unreliable Watchdog: The News Media and U.S. Foreign Policy (2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to many, given the rocky road that U.S.-ROK relations have been on lately. However, it certainly added fuel to the fire and further strained an already tense relationship. The leaked documents were a stark reminder that even the closest of allies can have their trust tested. It remains to be seen how this latest development will impact the future of U.S.-ROK relations, but one thing is for sure: the road ahead will not be an easy one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1922575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,7189,5220,16947,25564,3960,7238],"class_list":["post-1922574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-joe","tag-korea","tag-relations","tag-repaired","tag-south","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1922575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}