Post9.11Era Of The ROK-US Alliance Dilemma And Strategic Choice Of The South Korea

The ROK-US Alliance has been set up for60years, during this time thisalliance as a support part of the South Korea national security play an importantrole in peace and stability on the Korea Peninsula, when it comes the post ColdWar era, this alliance beyond military security and developed in politicaleconomic cultural nearly all area. At the same time the South Korea have to facethe alliance dilemma of abandonment or entrapment. Especially after the9.11itbecome more seriously. The alliance dilemma can divide into inside dilemmaand outside dilemma. Inside dilemma refer to the problem between two countryin management process, it mainly in the impact of changes in America militarystrategy on the ROK-US alliance and the return problems of wartime operationalcontrol of South Korea armed forces. The outside dilemma refers to the conflictbetween the two countries in the party and the third country, it mainly means therelationship with China and North korea. While the union internal and externaldifficulties are affected. The traditional alliance theory is mainly from the power position study the rise and falls of the country maintain management problem,but it is hard to explain the asymmetry of the ROK-US alliance, so this paperstudy the alliance dilemma of South Korea in the alliance development processbased asymmetric alliance theory and alliance dilemma theory, and put forwardthe full range of independent diplomacy and the multilateral securitycooperation mechanism as the solutions of the diplomatic strategy alliancedilemma, it might throw some light on the strategic direction to the Koreagovernment.