Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy is blunt about the stakes.
The United States must deter major war, restore favorable balances of power and protect the foundations of American prosperity in a period of sustained competition with authoritarian states.
Nowhere is this challenge more acute than in Northeast Asia. The region sits at the intersection of nuclear risk, great power rivalry and alliance credibility.
The Korean Peninsula, long treated as a discrete contingency, has become a fulcrum that links China, Russia, Japan, Taiwan, and the wider Asia-Indo-Pacific into a single operational system.
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