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- Allied Burdensharing in Transition: Status and Implications for the United States
- This report describes recent changes in U.S. burdensharing relationships with NATO, Japan and South Korea and, in the process, identifies some implications for U.S. foreign policy.
- APEC - Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation: Free Trade and Other Issues
- As a result of an initiative by Australia in 1989, the United States joined with eleven other Asia/Pacific nations in creating APEC, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation organization. This report discusses the annual Ministerial Meeting of APEC in Seattle, held from November 17 - 19, 1993.
- Korean Crisis, 1994: Military Geography, Military Balance, Military Options
- The United States and Republic of Korea (ROK) currently seek ways to convince the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) that it should forego the manufacture of nuclear weapons, initially by allowing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to conduct full inspections of suspected facilities. North Korea thus far has refused, although it did agree to an incomplete examination of declared sites early in March 1994. This report reviews military options open to each side as the United Nations, United States, and South Korea explore ways to resolve the resultant crisis peacefully despite threats of war from Pyongyang.
- South Korea's Economy and Trade
- South Korea has become a mid-level economy with a growing consumer market and industrial base. It now is in transition. It can no longer compete easily in low-wage, low-technology manufacturing with other countries of Asia, yet it does not have the technology and expertise to compete fully with industries from Japan, the United States, and Europe.
- Korea: U.S.-South Korean Issues in the 1990's
- U.S. policymakers in Congress face a series of often interrelated security, economic, and political issues in relations with South Korea. U.S. policy concern on the Korean peninsula has focused over the past 3 years on the serious security implications of North Korea's nuclear program (see CRS Issue Brief 91141).
- APEC and Free Trade in the Asia Pacific
- This report discusses the summit held by President Bill Clinton and other leaders of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) on November 19, 1995. The report discusses the primary reason for the summit, an Action Agenda intended to lead to free and open trade and investment among its members. The report also discusses how APEC countries were divided on certain issues going into this summit.
- Dispute Settlement in the Proposed U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA)
- The proposed U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) follows current U.S. free trade agreement (FTA) practice in containing two types of formal dispute settlement: (1) State- State, applicable to disputes between the KORUS FTA Parties, and (2) investor-State, applicable to claims by an investor of one KORUS FTA Party against the other Party for breach of an agreement investment obligation.
- Korea: U.S.-South Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- Korea: U.S.-South Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- Korea: U.S.-South Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- Korea: U.S.-South Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- Korea: U.S.-Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- Korea: U.S.-Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- Korea: U.S.-Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- Korea: U.S.-Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- Korea: U.S.-Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- Korea: U.S.-Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- Korea: U.S.-Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- South Korean Politics and Rising “Anti-Americanism”: Implications for U.S. Policy Toward North Korea
- This report outlines the shifts in the South Korean polity since the election of 2002 which exposed the generational divide in South Korea with younger people more apt to criticize the United States, particularly on matters pertaining to North Korea and US military presence on the Korean Peninsula. The report also discusses these developments, particularly the rise in anti-Americanism and how it impacts American policy towards North Korea.
- Korea: U.S.-Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- Korea: U.S.-Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- Korea: U.S.-Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- Korea: U.S.-Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- Korea: U.S.-Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- Korea: U.S.-Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- Korea: U.S.-Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- Korea: U.S.-Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- The Rise of China and Its Effect on Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea: U.S. Policy Choices
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- Korea: U.S.-Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- Korea: U.S.-Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- Korea: U.S.-Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- South Korea-U.S. Economic Relations: Cooperation, Friction, and Prospects for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
- This report summarizes the main issues in U.S.-South Korean economic relations, including South Korea’s economic prospects and economic reforms, major bilateral economic disputes, and prospects for a U.S.-South Korean Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The report will be updated periodically.
- The Rise of China and Its Effect on Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea: U.S. Policy Choices
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- Korea: U.S.-Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- Korea: U.S.-Korean Relations - Issues for Congress
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- Korea: U.S.-Korean Relations--Issues for Congress
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- North Korean Actions, 1950 - 2007: Controversy and Issues
- This report provides information on reported instances of North Korean provocations against South Korea, the United States, and Japan between June 1950 and 2007 and related actions. Reports of North Korean involvement in drug trafficking and "political and other extrajudicial killing" are outside the purview of this report.
- The Proposed U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA): Provisions and Implications
- This report is designed to assist Members of the 110th Congress as they consider the costs and benefits of the U.S.-South Korean Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA). It examines the provisions KORUS FTA in the context of the overall U.S.-South Korean economic relationship, U.S. objectives, and South Korean objectives.
- Rising Energy Competition and Energy Security in Northeast Asia: Issues for U.S. Policy
- This report analyzes how China, Japan, and South Korea's pursuits to bolster their energy security impacts U.S. interests. It also examines decisions being made by Asian states now that will significantly shape global affairs in the future, how these decisions might play out, and how Congress and the executive branch might play a role in those decisions.
- Rising Energy Competition and Energy Security in Northeast Asia: Issues for U.S. Policy
- This report analyzes how China, Japan, and South Korea's pursuits to bolster their energy security impacts U.S. interests. It also examines decisions being made by Asian states now that will significantly shape global affairs in the future, how these decisions might play out, and how Congress and the executive branch might play a role in those decisions.
- Mad Cow Disease and U.S. Beef Trade
- This report discusses the international beef market and U.S. efforts to regain foreign markets that banned U.S. beef when a Canadian-born cow in Washington state tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in December 2003.
- U.S.-South Korea Beef Dispute: Negotiations and Status
- This report discusses the agreement regarding the beef imports from the United States to South Korea.
- The Proposed U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA): Provisions and Implications
- This report is designed to assist Members of the 110th Congress as they consider the costs and benefits of the U.S.-South Korean Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA). It examines the provisions KORUS FTA in the context of the overall U.S.-South Korean economic relationship, U.S. objectives, and South Korean objectives.
- U.S.-South Korea Beef Dispute: Negotiations and Status
- This report discusses the agreement regarding the beef imports from the United States to South Korea.
- Korea-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress
- This report outlines the various elements of the bilateral relations between both the U.S. and North Korea and the U.S. and South Korea, especially nuclear nonproliferation agreements, nuclear dismantlement policies, and U.S. military troop withdrawals from South Korea.
- The Proposed U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA): Provisions and Implications
- This report is designed to assist Members of Congress as they consider the costs and benefits of the U.S.-South Korean Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA.) It examines the provisions of the KORUS FTA in the context of the overall U.S.-South Korean economic relationship, U.S. objectives, and South Korean objectives.
- The Proposed U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA): Provisions and Implications
- This report is examines the provisions of the KORUS FTA in the context of the overall U.S.-South Korean economic relationship, U.S. objectives, and South Korean objectives.