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ROK-FORTRESS: Measuring the Effect of Geopolitical Transcreation for National Security and Public Safety

Bert Herring, Christina Q Knight, Drew Rein, Evi Fuelle, Jiyeon Cho, Jiyeon Joo, Jonathan Nguyen, Joseph Brandifino, Kaustubh Deshpande, Kyungho Song, Max Fenkell, Michael S. Lee, Minn Seok Choi, Udari Madhushani Sehwag, Yash Maurya, Yeongkyun Jang

Korean language increases suppression of responses to security prompts in LLMs, while Korean geopolitical context often reduces it.

arxiv:2605.14152 v1 · 2026-05-13 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.CR · cs.CY

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Across a dual-track set of frontier and Korean-optimized models, we find a consistent suppression effect in Korean variants and substantial model-to-model variation in how geopolitical grounding interacts with language. In many models, Korean grounding mitigates the Korean language-driven suppression -- with no model showing significant amplification in the other direction.

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That the expert-crafted binary rubrics and LLM-as-a-judge panels produce stable, unbiased safety scores that correctly separate language effects from geopolitical effects without introducing their own cultural or linguistic biases.

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ROK-FORTRESS shows Korean-language prompts increase LLM safety suppression compared with English, while Korean geopolitical grounding often reduces that suppression, indicating translation-only evaluations miss language-context interactions.

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arxiv: 2605.14152 · arxiv_version: 2605.14152v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.14152 · pith_short_12: RPJBTYC2XU2W · pith_short_16: RPJBTYC2XU2WDEIL · pith_short_8: RPJBTYC2

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