South Korea
Very high structural capacity, prosperity matched by institutions.
What stands out
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Structural shape
Each spoke shows one pillar, with 0 at the center and 1 at the edge. The shape reveals whether the pillars are similar or whether one is much lower than the others. That difference is called the .
Read as Some imbalance · spread 0.21
Additional checks
1 flagged · 9/9 assessedThese checks add context that the overall score can miss. Select a check to see its result, the evidence behind it, and whether enough information was available to assess it.
These two checks run automatically from the five pillars and public source data.
These checks need reviewed historical or political context. A result of “not assessed” means that review has not been completed.
These checks describe structural risk. They do not predict who will act first in a conflict. Differences smaller than 0.03 are treated as too close to rank when countries are compared head-to-head.
Additional diagnostics
the reviewed context is mixed, incomplete, or changing.
- · Flagged checks: external threat
no material movement.
Short-term movement is noisy and often reverses. The current level and the durability gap are more informative than a recent change.
Largest difference across the weighting methods: 0.028. The country stays in the same score band in each check.
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External security context
reviewed for 2016HIGH structural exposure but protected by an outside ally: raw adversity is severe, yet a credible external defender both reduces the shock (lowers net exposure) and softens it (lifts response). Persistence despite exposure is the expected reading here (e.g. South Korea).
What happened: Persists as a sovereign state under standing high exposure; no successful invasion since 1953.
The indicators behind the score
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