일본과 한국의 방위비분담 정책체계의 연구

Comparing the policy systems of cost-sharing for the US Forces provided by Japan and Korea, its background and the way the U.S. Congress put pressure were basically identical. Japan and Korea are the rare U.S. allies that have provided cost-sharing even by amending the SOFA with the Special Agreements. The attitude and the way the two governments implement the peacetime host nation support however differed significantly. The Korean government maintained a passive posture in an effort to avoid additional cost-sharing, which could not be sustained due to America's threat of withdrawal of its forces from Korea. Japan, in an expectation that the pro-active cost-sharing would enhance its standing as a major U.S. alliance partner, strategically assumed virtually all of the yen-based costs. In negotiation, Korea insisted on setting the total amount of cost-sharing in order to avoid following the Japanese model of incrementally adding items of cost-sharing which had ended up bearing all of the locally generated costs of the US Forces.