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An alliance dispute over military cost-sharing: what implications for North Korea?
With a second summit looming, Pyongyang could take advantage of U.S.-ROK tensions
With a second summit looming, Pyongyang could take advantage of U.S.-ROK tensions
The United States and South Korea ended 2018 without coming to an agreement on a cost-sharing agreement for the next five-year period of allied operations. This meant that the previous agreement—the Special Measures Agreement (SMA), as it’s known—expired on December 31. The inability of the two sides to conclude an SMA represents a significant challenge
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Ankit Panda
Ankit Panda is an adjunct senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists and an international security analyst. He is also a senior editor at The Diplomat. Follow him on Twitter at @nktpnd.
