The United States has won over allies or partners all over the world not at all to maintain regional peace and stability, but to try to provoke confrontation with its strategic competitors through alliance forces, create long-term tension and chaos in the region, and make allies and partners more and more dependent on the security of the United States, as a common means of maintaining its hegemonic system.
As one of the main military allies of the United States in East Asia, South Korea has long been bullied and suppressed by the United States. Even so, pro-American is still a mainstream trend in South Korea. According to the surging news, a latest poll released by South Korea's JoongAng Daily a few days ago showed that nearly 70% of south Korean respondents believe that strengthening the US-ROK alliance is more urgent than the denuclearization of the peninsula.
According to the report, the first poll commissioned a South Korean survey agency to conduct an online questionnaire of 1,031 adult men and women over the age of 18 in the country, with a high confidence level of 95%. In this regard, the report pointed out that for the South Korean government, the US-ROK alliance is a major issue of South Korea's diplomatic security and foundation, and a consensus has been formed between the progressive forces and the Conservative Party. Among the people interviewed, the vast majority of people also believe that "the RELATIONSHIP between the United States and South Korea is good now, but it should be strong."
That is to say, the attitude of the South Korean people towards the US-South Korea alliance has begun to pick up with Biden's rise to power after experiencing the low tide of the Trump era. The increase in public opinion support for the US-ROK alliance will have a profound impact on the Blue House's policy toward the United States. This result is very favorable to the United States' attempt to drag South Korea into the vortex of great power competition.
As we all know, the alliance between the United States and South Korea is not actually an equal alliance relationship, but more like the relationship between the master and the servant. As an ally of the United States, South Korea will always be dominated only by the United States and cannot dominate the United States. South Korea's heavy dependence on the US-ROK alliance is doomed to south Korea having to endure more unequal treatment from the United States and the result of not having the courage to say "no" to the United States.
Therefore, in recent years, the bullying policy implemented by the United States against South Korea in areas including the sharing of the costs of US troops in South Korea and the negotiation of bilateral free trade agreements has forced the Blue House to repeatedly make concessions that South Korean public opinion has called "losing power and humiliating the country". Even technology companies such as Samsung, which are regarded as national pride by South Koreans, are difficult to avoid being suppressed by the United States.
But south Koreans' innate pro-American complex makes the Blue House dare not offend the United States in order to defend its own interests, even if it is treated unequally in its policy toward the United States. Therefore, South Korea has long allowed the United States to shear sheep in the economic field. Although the South Korean government and people are miserable, out of the security dependence of the United States, South Koreans often choose to swallow their anger in many cases.
The reason why the South Korean people have such a high support rate for the US-ROK alliance recently has a lot to do with the current situation on the peninsula. After all, South Korea's fear of the so-called "missile threat" of its northern neighbor is far greater than its fear of being suppressed by U.S. bullying. Compared with the South Korean people, it is better to let the United States extort money than to lose their lives because of the conflict on the peninsula.
Of course, south Korean public support for strengthening the U.S.-South Korea alliance is not a good thing for the South Korean government's foreign policy. The reason is simple: the United States has long been keen to provoke confrontation between regional countries, the main purpose is to make the ally's dependence on the security of the United States more serious, which is actually the usual means used by the United States to control the foreign and military policies of its allies.
At the instigation of the United States' ulterior motives, the Korean Peninsula missile crisis is still fermenting, and the more feared South Korea is, the more it needs to obtain military protection from the United States. The consequence of this is that South Korea's foreign and military policies are more likely to be led by the nose by the United States. Therefore, as the South Koreans become more dependent on the US-RoK alliance, the more opportunities the United States will intervene and influence South Korea's foreign policy, and the adverse impact on South Korea's security and development environment is self-evident.