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South Korea will assume primary deterrence against North Korea with limited U.S. support while boosting defense spending to 3.5% of GDP, officials said.
- Last month, Washington published a new National Security Strategy and unveiled the 2026 National Defense Strategy, reflecting President Donald Trump's 'America First' approach and urging allies to share defense burdens.
- Debate inside the administration over allied roles helped drive the change, as last month’s National Security Strategy signaled a break from post-Cold War policies.
- South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung said Saturday that `achieving self-reliant defense is the most basic of basics` as the Pentagon outlined Seoul's capability to take 'primary' responsibility with 'critical, but more limited' U.S. support, aiming for a wartime control handover by 2030.
- Analysts and experts debated the strategy's fallout as a visiting professor at Yonsei University noted South Korea defence spending equals 1.4 times North Korea's GDP and it holds the world's fifth-largest military power.
- By linking defence to economic aims, South Korea positions self‑reliance as both strategic and fiscal policy; Lee Jae Myung said robust self‑reliant defense will enable sustainable economic growth.
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