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Korea's Strait Dilemma | South Korea News
South Korea’s potential military move to the Strait of Hormuz echoes its 2003 Iraq deployment—but with far more domestic and geopolitical friction. While then, a conservative opposition backed U.S.-aligned action, today’s ruling party faces internal dissent and wary allies. The 2003 war’s shaky WMD justification has no UN backing now, and Iran’s nuclear posture lacks a legal pretext for preemptive strikes. Worse, diverting forces from North Korea—now a far greater nuclear threat with advanced missiles and closer ties to China and Russia—could destabilize South Korea’s own backyard. And unlike…
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