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News | Dec. 2, 2025

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

By Dr. Clint Work KEI

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.

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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.