The New Change Of U.S.-South Korea Alliance And Its Influence On The Security Pattern In North-East Asia

Northeast Asia is the most concentrated areas that which is the world big country strategy and geopolitical interactions. So it is essential to study the areas’security, and the alliance of U.S.-South Korea is a particularly important factor in the security pattern of Northeast Asia.After the cold war, with the rapid development of economy, strengthening their own awareness and anti-Americanism upsurge continuously in South Korea, the development alliance from the relationship of "U.S. first and South Korea second" in the early times to equal partnership gradually. Because of the enhancement of international influence and the improvement of political position, South Korea eager to get rid of the United States of America in the politics, economy, military, foreign affairs and other aspects.The alliance is going through the most profound crisis in60years. But since Lee Myung-bak became president of South Korea, he restored and re-definited the estranged U.S.-South Korea alliance, and the alliance repaired and strengthened rapidly. The new change of the alliance, will inevitably affect the evolution of the situation in the Korean peninsula.In2010, there were "Cheonan" events and Yan Ping Island shelling incident in the Korean Peninsula, and these events brought profound and complex effects to political and security environment and power pattern in Northeast Asia. At the same time, we also recognized that, whether the group of president Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun who alienated U.S., or the group of pro-American president Lee Myung-bak, were unable to avoid the alliance that existed the differences and contradictions in various fields.With their each respective political, economic development in the United States of America and the South Korea, the weakening and strengthening of the contradiction in U.S.-South Korea alliance made the development of alliance existing many uncertain factors. So to study the role change of the U.S.-South Korea alliance in the security pattern of Northeast Asia, there is a profound significance to predicting the trend of U.S.-South Korea alliance, and analysing its influence in the security pattern of Northeast Asia. And the study also provides us with different views to locate the role of U.S.-South Korea alliance in the security pattern of the Northeast Asia.