US-KOREA 2009 YEARBOOK.

Download or read book US-KOREA 2009 YEARBOOK. written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Salience of the Alliance Similar to the discourse surrounding the U. [...] While the shortfalls outlined by the conference point to the probable diffi culties the transfer of operational controls will face, fears that the transfer and subsequent disbandment of the CFC could undermine alliance ties should be allayed by the intrinsic operational dependency of the South Korea military. [...] LONG-TERM CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS: ASIA AND THE ALLIANCE Dynamic Changes in Northeast Asia The challenges to American hegemony and the accelerated transformation of international politics precipitated by the 2008 fi nancial crisis leave the possibility for fundamental shifts in the economic and security architectures that affect the current U. [...] On the heel of the Asian fi nancial crisis, the informal breakfast meeting on the sidelines of the APT summit in 1999 marked the fi rst meeting among the heads of China, Japan, and South Korea in modern times. [...] "The hosting of the G20 summit refl ects that South Korea now stands in the center of the global stage beyond the Asian region." In a 2009 speech in commemoration of the 61st anniversary of the founding of the South Korean armed forces, Lee called for building of a "highly effi cient and multifunctional" military to support his administration's "Global Korea" policy.