During 2023, President Yoon Suk-yeol sought to deepen contacts with Japan, the US, and other like-minded countries, while paying less attention to authoritarian neighbors like China, Russia, and North Korea.
South Korea's indirect transfer of artillery shells to Ukraine will negatively impact its relations with Russia. Its neglect of dialogue with North Korea, expanded military cooperation and exercises with the US and efforts to 'de-risk' from China will complicate relations with Xi. Seoul's anti-North Korea rhetoric and acts to cancel the 2018 North-South military agreement have raised tensions on the peninsula and provoked harsh rebukes from Pyongyang.
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