The United States’s alliance with South Korea is stronger than ever despite new missile tests from North Korea, according to a South Korean diplomat.
The 70-year alliance between the two nations is deepening across every domain, according to Choon-goo Kim, charge d’affaires for South Korea’s embassy in the United States.
“The friendship between Korea and the United States goes back 140 plus years,” Kim said at an April 14 discussion at the Brookings Institution, a D.C.-based think tank.
“We have been allies half of the time of our friendship. Forged in blood, our alliance has been the foundation of our current prosperity.”…