The U.S.-Korea Embrace (Council on Foreign Relations)

07.05.2013 06:17

https://www.cfr.org/northeast-asia/us-korea-embrace/p30633

The United States and South Korea look to reaffirm their special security and economic alliance during President Park Geun-hye's first state visit to Washington this week. Scott A. Snyder, CFR's top Korea expert, says, "Both sides are eager to share with each other messages of assurance, given the tensions with North Korea." On economic affairs, he notes that while "there have been no real hiccups so far" regarding the now one-year-old U.S.-Korea free trade agreement, "a potential issue" will be whether Seoul may join the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations (PDF), a proposed regional free-trade pact that includes the U.S and eleven other nations.