{"id":876612,"date":"2026-09-01T20:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T20:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/876612\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T20:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T20:50:11","slug":"critical-minerals-could-see-australia-and-south-korea-build-a-strategic-trade-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/876612\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Minerals could see Australia and South Korea build a strategic trade partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia has a generational opportunity to position itself as the Republic of Korea\u2019s premier strategic partner at a time when Seoul is scanning the horizon for long-term stability. So why do we have a history of creating regulatory roadblocks that make it harder for one of our leading trading partners to invest here?<\/p>\n<p>Korea\u2019s traditional defence, trade and investment ties with the United States are clouded in uncertainty. Washington\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p60owl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">decision to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea<\/a> as US President Donald Trump renews his diplomatic overtures to North Korea comes as Pyongyang expands its nuclear capabilities and deepens its military relationship with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia has a generational opportunity to position itself as the Republic of Korea\u2019s premier strategic partner at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-876612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}