Rewind and Reconnoiter: A Hawkish Dove? President Moon Jae-In and South Korea’s Military Build Up with Lami Kim

In 2021, Lami Kim wrote “A Hawkish Dove? President Moon Jae-In and South Korea’s Military Buildup” for War on the Rocks, in which she discussed contradictory South Korean policies of peaceful engagement with North Korea and a military buildup to secure operational control on the peninsula from the United States. In response to recent South Korean parliamentary elections, we asked her to look back on the article. Read more below. Photo Credit:  U.S. Air Force (Photo by Staff Sgt. Alex Fox Echols III) In your article “A Hawkish Dove? President Moon Jae-in and South Korea’s Military Buildup” written in 2021, you discussed