{"id":2199514,"date":"2022-11-21T10:27:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T10:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nknews.org\/koreapro\/?p=2199514"},"modified":"2023-04-05T16:10:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T07:10:57","slug":"as-reunification-hopes-fade-south-koreans-favor-us-alliance-more-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koreapro.org\/2022\/11\/as-reunification-hopes-fade-south-koreans-favor-us-alliance-more-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"As reunification hopes fade, South Koreans favor US alliance more than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tensions are once again rising on the Korean Peninsula, a reality most recently underscored by North Korea\u2019s successful test launch of a <\/span>Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile<\/span><\/a>, and through it all, the South Korean public has remained calm.<\/span><\/p>\n But the rising tensions provide a good opportunity to take stock of where the South Korean public stands on related issues, from general attitudes toward the DPRK and attitudes on the alliance with the U.S. to a potential nuclear weapons program.<\/span><\/p>\n And what a decade of polling shows is that the ROK public\u2019s views toward Pyongyang have hardened and hopes for unification are dying off, while once widespread skepticism of Washington has given way to the belief that U.S. forces have a role to play on the peninsula for the foreseeable future.<\/span><\/p>\n