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What Biden Is Doing to Keep South Korea From Going Nuclear

His meeting with President Yoon Suk-Yeol revealed a few things about why nukes are still so important to U.S. foreign policy.

Fred Kaplan | Slate

April 28, 2023

U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol in the Rose Garde

"The upshot - expressed in a document heftily titled the 'Washing Declaration,' signed by Biden and Yoon - pledges that the U.S. will make its extended deterrent more palpable. In exchange, South Korea will refrain from going nuclear itself."

--SSP alum Fred Kaplan in Slate

 

 

 

 

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