Sitting in one of the world’s major conflict regions, Korea is always destined to conduct a nerve-racking balancing act between its economic and national security interests.
It cannot reject a request by the United States, Korea’s biggest military ally, in its orchestrated campaign to impose global sanctions against Iran for its nuclear ambitions. At the same time, it cannot brush aside Iran’s threat that it will cut off all economic ties with Korea if it joins the sanctions, as bilateral trade of $10 billion a year is at stake.
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