Despite Seoul’s engagement efforts, the Kim regime continues to label South Korea as its number one enemy because hostility toward the South is essential both to counter the internal threat posed by K-culture and to strategically pressure a conciliatory South Korean government into concessions in the name of peace.

Calls by South Korean progressive groups to suspend U.S.–ROK military exercises reflect a coordinated domestic push—widely seen as aligned with Pyongyang’s strategy—to weaken the alliance under the constraints of U.S. pressure on Seoul.

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