Editor’s note: The following article is an opinion piece by Ki-ho Han, a research professor at the Ajou Institute of Unification Studies. Views expressed in opinion articles are exclusively the author’s own and do not represent those of NK News.

Despite much attention gravitating toward the ongoing war in Ukraine and conflict in the Middle East,  the most existential threat to U.S. national security still lies dormant in the Korean Peninsula.

The peninsula is not merely a regional dispute, but an ultra, high-density military concentration zone, where the interests of global powers and immense destructive capabilities meet to form one