US-ROK Global Strategic Partnership in the Indo-Pacific
"The alliance between the United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK) plays an increasingly important role in US foreign policy in the Indo-Pacific region. At the 2023 Biden-Yoon Summit, the two nations celebrated the 70th anniversary and proclaimed the triumphs of the past with an eye towards the future of the expanded US-ROK Global Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. Today, the United States and the ROK have defined clear—and, importantly, mutual—foreign policy agendas on security, defense, trade, and energy. As the United States and the ROK look towards the decades to come for the alliance, both opportunities and challenges lay on the horizon."
Read more from Kayla Orta, senior associate with the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy.
The Indo-Pacific in the World
To help inform US policymakers about the region and its many interconnected issue areas, this collection from the Indo-Pacific Program features reports analyzing and providing recommendations on US policy toward the region, key actors, and vital issues.
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Kayla Orta
Kayla Orta is the Senior Associate at the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy. Former U.S. Department of Defense NSEP Boren Scholar, her expertise lies in U.S.-Indo-Pacific and U.S.-Korean foreign relations. Having lived in South Korea, she is professionally fluent in Korean and publishes extensively on Korean domestic and foreign affairs.
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Indo-Pacific Program
The Indo-Pacific Program promotes policy debate and intellectual discussions on US interests in the Asia-Pacific as well as political, economic, security, and social issues relating to the world’s most populous and economically dynamic region. Read more
Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy
The Center for Korean History and Public Policy was established in 2015 with the generous support of the Hyundai Motor Company and the Korea Foundation to provide a coherent, long-term platform for improving historical understanding of Korea and informing the public policy debate on the Korean peninsula in the United States and beyond. Read more
