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2026-03-16 Thank you for being an Ironclad-Alliance™ level subscriber
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2026-03-07 Seoul Watches THAAD Leave and Counts the Cost
Washington is reportedly moving missile defense platforms from South Korea to support the Israeli/US attack on Iran. As it does, Seoul is counting the…
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2026-02-28 Immediate middle power reactions to Iran strikes
Australia, South Korea, and Norway react to the Israeli/US attacks on Iran
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2026-02-26 Watching Uncle Sam from Seoul
Venezuela and now Iran are having an impact beyond their immediate regions
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2026-02-03 Middle powers in a crumbling order
The international order is a dry-stone wall. The great powers are the large structural stones and the middle powers are the chinking stones.
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2025-11-18 Seoul's quiet BRICS debate
A quiet but noticeable debate is beginning to surface in Seoul as to whether South Korea could get away with starting down the path towards BRICS
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2025-11-14 Seoul's strategic choices
Over the past week, subject to finalization of agreements, three more data points were added: OpCon transfer; nuclear submarines; and nuclear…
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2025-11-12 Those nukes are no longer about survival
Nuclear deterrence froze the peninsula for two decades but a conventional revival will rapidly thaw it.
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2025-11-11 Seoul’s submarine scenarios
A Korean-built nuclear submarine would be the culmination of that long process
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2025-10-30 Zombie multilateralism The undead world of APEC
APEC has become a zombie. It moves, it speaks, it performs all the gestures of life — but its soul has gone.
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2025-10-30 A tale of two trilaterals with Seoul sitting in the center
How South Korea positions itself in these two trilaterals has the potential to determine the future of the region
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2025-10-27 South Korea, Canada, and a middle-power submarine Can Australia join?
While Canada and Korea quietly get on with business, Australia’s AUKUS submarine plan looks more like a submissive slow-motion sovereignty swap without…
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