► The ROK-US Alliance has greatly contributed to achieving its original goal- deterring North Korea’s nuclearization and maintaining the stability on the Korea Peninsula.

► However, the current competition between the US and Chinese networks, including North Korea problem, is weakening the liberal international order that the ROK-US alliance has been positioned over the past 70 years.

► South Korea should expand its network in the Indo-Pacific region to achieve the Yoon administration’s foreign policy vision of a global pivotal state. The ROK-US alliance can be a starting point to build regional networks in a rules-based order.