Regarding the Moon Jae-in administration's military augmentation, a US diplomatic magazine, in 'Why South Korea's Liberals Are Defense Hawks', said, "We requested the US to transfer nuclear submarine technology, and the next president will also have nuclear weapons in some form. We will pursue the weaponization of technology.”
Foreign Police said, “President Moon Jae-in increased his defense budget by an average of 6.5% during his tenure, surpassing that of Japan, which has 2.5 times the population of South Korea. announced on the 22nd.
The article said, “I am confused as to why President Moon is so engrossed in the arms race. Analyzing that the South Korean left is reconsidering unification or that the South Korean government is strengthening national defense to recover wartime OPCON comes from ignorance of this context,” he said. , complaining that South and North Korea's missile launches are applying double standards. "Despite the implications and importance of South Korea's military build-up for North Korea's denuclearization, the international community is only paying attention to North Korea's missile tests," he said.
President Moon Jae-in, in a commemorative speech for Armed Forces Day on the 1st, said, “Because of strong trust in the military, I was able to propose a declaration of an end to the war, which is the first step toward peace.” connected directly.
In his commemorative speech, President Moon emphasized the “power-based peace” policy by saying that peace built and maintained on the basis of strong national defense can guarantee lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula, and linked it with the Trump Republican government’s “power-based diplomacy.”
In his speech at the 16th East Asia Summit (EAS) on the 27th, President Moon referred to the 'declaration of the end of the war', which he proposed at the UN General Assembly in September, saying, "This opens the door to dialogue and is an important step towards peace on the Korean Peninsula and in Asia, as well as in the world. starting point," he said.
Douglas McGregor, the proponent of the Trump administration's end-of-war declaration, was appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense on November 11, 2020.
McGregor, a former Fox News host for pro-Trump, previously contributed to the 'end of war declaration' that linked the declaration of an end to the war and the withdrawal of US troops during the Pyeongchang Olympics. The declaration must begin: Chinese President Xi Jinping, President Trump, President Moon Jae-in, and Chairman Kim Jong-un should all gather to sign an end-of-war declaration, and then President Trump will hand over the OPCON to President Moon and the Koreans so that Korea can become a truly sovereign state. must,” he said.
In the article 'Forin Police', President Moon successfully conducted a short-range missile launch test equipped with a 6-ton warhead after loosening the missile range limit as a 'lobby' during a summit meeting with President Biden (Democratic Party) and a stealth fighter. He pointed to the purchase of the F35, an aerial gas tanker, and the self-development of sonic fighters and light aircraft carriers as arms reinforcement.
In the National Fiscal Management Plan, the Moon Jae-in government announced a policy to increase the fiscal deficit by increasing the national debt-to-GDP ratio from 47.3% this year to 58.8% in 2025, and raising the fiscal deficit to 1.5 times that of Japan's defense spending by increasing military expenditure.
National deficit-running debt, compiled by the National Assembly Budget Office, was estimated to increase at an average annual rate of 11.4% from 359.9 trillion won (57.4% of the national debt) in 2016 to 953.3 trillion won (67.7%) in 2025.
‘Forin Police’ predicted that the average annual increase in the defense budget during President Roh Moo-hyun’s tenure was 8.9%, double the average increase of 4.2% during the conservative Park Geun-hye administration.
Real estate prices rose intensively under the Roh Moo-hyun and Moon Jae-in administrations, which strengthened military spending to meet the budget deficit.
Democrat Jake Sullivan, White House National Security Adviser, said, "We may have slightly different views on the exact sequence or timing conditions for other actions." “We fundamentally agree on the belief that foreign policy can be achieved and that diplomacy should be effectively combined with deterrence,” he said on the 26th.
He distinguished between Trump Republican Party's "power-based diplomacy" and President Moon Jae-in's "power-based peace" and "diplomatic deterrence."