For a Korea-Japan security partnership after NATO’s Washington Summit
Hideshi Tokuchi [President, Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS)]
- No one country in today’s world can achieve its national security all by itself. International partnership is critical.
- American commitment to international security will continue to be indispensable as the U.S. will remain at the pinnacle of the world power hierarchy.
- NATO’s effort to enhance partnership with the four countries known as “IP4”, i.e., Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the Republic of Korea, corresponds to these views.
- Korea and Japan must go forward to bolster the rules-based international order built upon the principle of the rule of law in accordance with the Spirit of Camp David together with the U.S., and also with other partners including NATO.
