Nancy Pelosi's visit to South Korea highlighted Seoul's role in Washington's Asia-Pacific strategy to contrast North Korea's military threat in the Korean Peninsula and, at the regional level, confront the rising Chinese presence.
Geopolitical Report ISSN 2785-2598 Volume 19 Issue 10 - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) expanded its atomic arsenal to defend its territory from possible aggression by the Republic of Korea, assisted by Washington and Tokyo. At the same time, North Korea has also faced complicated situations caused by United Nations sanctions eased by Chinese economic and geostrategic interests in the Korean Peninsula.
North Korea stretched its muscle by launching a short-range submarine ballistic missile, which confirmed that Pyongyang is a decisive military actor in Asia-Pacific that might threaten South Korea and contrast the U.S. presence in the region.
The recent North Korean missile test alarmed the Asia-Pacific region and demonstrated that Pyongyang has the military infrastructures and hardware to pose a threat to the U.S. interests and military operations in the region.
Geopolitical Report 2785-2598 Volume 12 Issue 10 - The political-strategic priorities of the People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation and the United States had conferred high geostrategic value to the Korean Peninsula in the North-East Pacific Scenario. In this region, since the totalitarian regime of North Korea hardly coexists with a Western-type State of South Korea, military assets play a fundamental role.