South Korea intervened in NATO as a competitive strategy in response to the US response to China, strengthening the strategy of “investment alliance competition” with China.
At a joint press conference with NATO Secretary-General Tony Blincoln, the US Secretary of State, it was announced on the 2nd that NATO, the European security alliance, would include 'China's threat' as a long-term strategic concept, and that South Korea and Japan would attend the NATO Summit in Spain on the 29th. .
At the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on April 26, Secretary Blincoln announced that "Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand will attend the Spanish NATO Summit."
U.S. Forces Korea commander Paul Lacamera held a meeting in Tokyo on the 1st, with General Koji Yamazaki, general director of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.
Regarding the extremely unusual meeting on this day, Japan's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) tweeted, "Chief Yamazaki (visited to Japan) met with Lacamera, commander of the UNC/CFC, USFK, USFK commander. They shared their awareness of the security environment on the Korean Peninsula and reaffirmed the importance of Japan-US-Korea cooperation.”
"In the 15 months of the Biden administration, we have witnessed an increasingly convergence of attitudes among our allies and partners toward China and the challenges posed by it," Blincoln said in a Foreign Affairs interview the day before. There are common concerns and dissatisfaction," the Voice of America (VOA) reported.
He continued, “China has a strategy of ‘invest, align, and compete’. China can create an environment in which to make decisions,” he said.
Regarding the new 'strategic concept' to be adopted at the NATO summit in Spain, Secretary Blincoln said of the new 'strategic concept' to be adopted at the NATO summit in Spain: "Malicious cyber behavior, China's rapid militarization and 'unrestricted' friendship with Russia, and the norms that are the foundation of world peace and security. It includes China's efforts to undermine the international order," he said.
VOA reported on the same day, "The Korean and Japanese media also reported that their heads of state will attend the NATO summit." did.