Strengthening Of The US-Japan-ROK Trilateral Relations And Trend Analysis

US-Japan-ROK trilateral interaction is carried out within the framework of theUS-Japan, US-ROK alliance system. US-Japan, US-ROK military alliance has passedthe Japan-US Security Treaty and the US-ROK Mutual Defense Treaty signed to setup, during the Cold War to deter the Soviet Union, led by the socialist camp as thegoal. After the Cold War, the collapse of the bipolar pattern, the basis of two sets ofbilateral alliances shaken, have a weakening trend in the early 1990s. With the U.S.alliance system, the role of cognitive deepening of the national strategy of the UnitedStates is gradually deflected to the Asia-Pacific region, US-Japan, US-ROK alliancenew positioning and enhanced and vigorous advocacy of the United States, andactively building a multilateral security cooperation frame.Strengthening trend of US-Japan-ROK trilateral relations, including aninteractive two aspects of the traditional security fields with non-traditional securityfields. -Traditional security fields of military interaction is reflected in several aspectsof the garrison, the joint military exercises and defense cooperation. With the outbreakof the crisis on the Korean Peninsula, the United States, Japan in the interests andconcerns of consistency on the basis of the mechanism to open three joint militaryexercises, the scale of military exercises, and high density can be described asunprecedented. The interaction of non-traditional security field by way of economicand trade cooperation in combating terrorism, regional security issues - North Koreannuclear issue to deal with the US-Japan-ROK trilateral contact closer.Factors that affect the interaction of the US-Japan-ROK trilateral relations is alsodivided into internal and external motivation to both sides. The internal action due tothe main body of the trilateral interaction - the United States, Japan and South Korea - three national interests and policy-oriented basis. External action contains the securityenvironment, the rapid rise of the potential big country, and diversification of externalthreats. At the same time, the obstacles of the deep-seated contradictions betweenJapan and South Korea trilateral interaction can not be ignored.Combing and analysis of influencing factors on the US-Japan-ROK trilateralinteraction trend, the article in the last part of the alliance between the prospect ofanalysis and forecasting, and trilateral relations has made some comments.