In the event of US military intervention in Taiwan, US forces will be dispatched to South Korea, and the ROK military will begin 'extending joint exercises' based on the 'Communal Defense Mutual Commitment', and North Korea and China are expected to start joint measures under the 'Korea-China Friendship Treaty'.
Cho Hyun-dong, 1st Vice Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs Cho Hyun-dong, said about the EDSCG (Korea-U.S. Extended Deterrence Strategy Consultative Group) on the 14th, "The ROK and the United States will firmly respond to any provocation by North Korea through a combined defense posture."
President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol told the Washington Post on April 14, “We need to further strengthen the ROK-U.S. alliance and rely on a military alliance with the United States to respond strongly to China. It is an alliance with the United States.”
Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on the launch of a North Korean missile on April 20 (16th), "The Taiwanese government, as a member of the Indo-Pacific, jointly promotes peace and stability in the region, including the Korean Peninsula, and coordinates and agrees with the international community to safeguard the rule-based international order. “We will continue to closely monitor any missile tests conducted by North Korea and their possible impact on the region,” he said. stated to the target.
On April 19, the 'Chosun Shinbo' of the Korean Federation of Korean Residents in Japan stated, "The Taiwan issue poses a risk of potentially promoting tensions on the Korean Peninsula." We have an obligation to jointly take all measures to prevent this.”
The joint statement at the May Korea-US summit said, “The two leaders reaffirmed their mutual commitment to defending the Republic of Korea and the ROK-US combined defense posture under the ROK-U.S. Mutual Defense Treaty. 'Community defense' and 'expansion of joint exercises around the Korean Peninsula' were specified as the agreement to start.
The joint statement said, “President Seok-Yeol Yoon presented the Republic of Korea’s global pivotal state initiative in which Korea would play an expanded role in promoting freedom, peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific and beyond. welcomed the Indo-Pacific strategy”, paving the way for 'intervention' in the East and South China Seas conflict.
Bruce Bennett, a senior researcher at the Rand Institute, told Voice of America (VOA) on the 19th, "If China invades Taiwan, the 2nd Division of the USFK Ground Forces will remain in Korea, and lightweight units that can be deployed immediately will be sent to Taiwan."
Regarding the air force, he said, "We will move the air forces of Osan and Gunsan to various air bases in Okinawa, Japan, which already have various support infrastructure," he said, adding that the USFK air force's air force has a possibility of intervening in Taiwan.
In 2010, the U.S. Department of Defense stated in its defense policy that “when the service of the U.S. Forces in Korea is normalized, we will send extra troops abroad”, and in May of last year, U.S. Army Secretary Christine Wormers nominee “reform the military structure reflecting the supremacy competition with China” The focus of the US Army strategy will be on As a result, a permanent presence of U.S. forces in the region is absolutely necessary.” <Refer to Taiwan’s ‘North Korean Missile Condemnation’ and North Korea’s ‘North Korea-China Treaty’ Expanding War on the Korean Peninsula, April 21, 2022>