P a c N e t 1 7 P A C I F I C F OR U M · H ON OLU LU , H I M a r c h 1 9 , 20 24

HANBYEOL SOHN critical is the “median line” of the Taiwan Strait, the final line to block China’s military advance, Dr. [...] US preparations: Strategy and posture Impact on the Korean Peninsula: Exposure of vulnerabilities Thus, it has become crucial whether the US has achieved the posture to deter China. [...] The geography Research by the Atlantic Council has expressed of Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific region, surrounded concerns about crises connecting the Korean by sea and relatively distant for the US, pose a Peninsula to Taiwan and vice versa. [...] Although a new crisis is a concern, the US integrate the ROK Joint Chiefs of Staff, which and Korea must escape from being stuck in the leads military operations in peacetime, with the pressure to act immediately and share problem- ROK-US Combined Forces Command, recognition as allies. [...] The argument for “Integrated Deterrence 2.0,” further deepening and combining the existing network centered on the US in the Indo-Pacific region, is persuasive.