Can Seoul Take the Lead & The Alliance Expand Its Aperture?

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Gen. Dan Caine visits South Korea for the 50th MCM and 57th SCM.

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Gen. Dan Caine with U.S. Forces Korea

Gen. Dan Caine visited South Korea for the 50th Military Committee Meeting (MCM) and 57th Security Consultative Meeting (SCM), reaffirming the enduring strength of the ROK-U.S. Alliance.

U.S. and South Korean defense authorities met for the fifty-seventh Security Consultative Meeting (SCM) on November 4 in Seoul. Conventionally, the SCM Joint Communiqué is released at the conclusion of the meeting; however, this year it was delayed, coinciding with the release of the long-awaited Joint Fact Sheet on U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung.

Dr. Clint Work is a Research Fellow in the Center for Strategy and Military Power, Institute for National Strategic Studies, at the National Defense University.

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Can Seoul Take the Lead & The Alliance Expand Its Aperture?