Cooperation between the Defense Industrial Complexes of the United States and the Republic of Korea

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The article is devoted to the issue of further integration of the United States and the Republic of Korea military-industrial complexes in the military-technical cooperation area. The paper researches the current conditions that make the expansion and deepening of joint work between Washington and Seoul on this issue necessary. The study investigates the mutual interests of the United States and South Korea in the defense industry through the prism of their interests in the field of national security and foreign policy.

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Igor O. Shkrobtak

Georgy Arbatov Institute for U.S. and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (ISKRAN)

Email: igor.shkrobtak@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9382-6738
Candidate of Sciences (History), Senior Researcher, Department of Military and Political Research Moscow, Russian Federation

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