Although the expansion of societal security discourse did not lead extreme ‘revisionists’ to implement drastic strategic policy transformations in either country, it did provoke a ‘mutual security anxiety’ between the South Korean and Japanese publics, as they felt increasingly uncertain about each other's future security trajectory.
This was a consequence of the two democratic societies expanding and redefining the acceptable boundaries of their national security identities and principles in a changing regional environment. When Kim Dae-jung and Koizumi Junichiro visited Pyongyang in 20, their visits facilitated a perception shift toward North Korea in South Korea and Japan.
