Amid growing tensions between South Korea and China, Seoul removed the phrase “strategic partnership” describing the two countries’ relations from its latest national security document.
Moreover, a recent opinion poll found that nearly 80 percent of South Koreans do not trust communist China.
On June 7, the Yoon Suk-yeol administration released the latest version of South Korea’s National Security Strategy, a top-level document on the country’s foreign and security policy directions.
The new strategy document labeled North Korea’s increased nuclear missile capability as “the most serious challenge” and emphasized strong countermeasures, with a new policy focus on the Korea-U.S. alliance and Korea-U.S.-Japan cooperation….