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Welcome to the president's inbox, a CFR podcast about the foreign policy challenges facing the United States.

I'm Jim Lindsay, Director's Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

This week's topic is the U.S. South Korea Alliance.

With me to discuss U.S. South Korea relations is Scott Snyder. Scott is Senior Fellow for

Korea Studies and Director of the Program on U.S. Korea policy at the council. He has written extensively on

South Korea's foreign policy, U.S. South Korean relations, and security issues more broadly in

Northeast Asia. He is the author of the United States South Korea Alliance, Why It May Fail and

Why It Must Not, which just hit the bookstores.

Scott, congratulations on the publications of the United States South Korea Alliance,

and thank you for coming back on the president's inbox.

Thank you, Jim.

It is great to be here with a book under my belt.

Before we start talking about the topics that the book covers Scott and the broader issue

of U.S. South Korea relations, I want to let listeners know how they can win a free copy

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