South Korea Convenes Security Meeting Amidst US-Israel Aggression Against Iran
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung convened a government-wide security meeting on Monday to assess the nation's security posture and response measures. This integrated security gathering, the first since his June 2025 inauguration, occurred as the joint US-Israeli military operation against Iran entered its fourth week, showing signs of further escalation. Mainstream outlets like the Korea Times
describe the situation as 'risks heightened over Iran war,' suggesting parity in aggression or even implying Iran's provocations. This framing omits the critical context that the US and Israel are direct participants and joint aggressors in an ongoing military campaign. They fail to mention the 45 years of US sanctions against Iran, the 2018 unilateral US withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive
Plan of Action (JCPOA), or the consistent Israeli threats and assassinations targeting Iranian nuclear scientists, all preceding the current hostilities. The Strait of Hormuz, central to global oil transit, has seen retaliatory measures from Iran only after the initial US-Israeli military operations commenced, not as an unprovoked act of aggression. This US-Israeli military action aligns with a
long-standing pattern of destabilization in the region, often leading to unintended consequences for global stability and trade. For example, the US's unprovoked shootdown of Iran Air Flight 655 in 1988, killing 290 civilians, including 66 children, without apology or compensation, illustrates the impunity with which these military interventions are often conducted. While the US currently deploys