An analysis of the American foreign policy towards the Korean Peninsula

• Main Author: Basa, Jasmin Jean
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1997
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/1776
• Institution: De La Salle University

Prior to the Second World War, Korea was not regarded important by the United States. Even until the end of World War 11 Korea was not included in the Containment policy of the US. The outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 changed this US view of Korea and included it in its defense perimeter because the US saw that it can be used by the Soviet Union to take the entire Asia. From this started the American foreign policies toward the Korean Peninsula. The US established military, economic, and political relations with Korea and with these are the different US foreign policies. From the period, 1945 to 1995, there were changes and continuities in the American foreign policies toward the Korean Peninsula. The changes and the continuities in the US policies occurred in the military and economic aspects of the US-Korean relations. These were brought about by the different domestic factors such as the individual, the position of the individual, and the regional factor, and as well as the external factor which was the global factor. As a whole US-Korea relations can be characterized as smooth and friendly. Although there were unpleasant years, there were more pleasant ones.