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Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs What South Korea’s Israel Snub Means The Lee government is moving towards greater independence from the U.S. Photo by Lucas Aguayo Araos/Anadolu via Getty Images The Republic of Korea and the State of Israel were both founded in 1948, out of the wreckage of colonial empires upended by the Second World War. The two governments did not establish formal diplomatic relations until 1962, but they were on the same side for much of the Cold War, with Israel balancing against anti-American forces in the Middle East and South Korea doing the same in…Open