The US and South Korea have secured a landmark deal to counter North Korea’s nuclear threats.
Washington has agreed to periodically deploy us nuclear-armed submarines to South Korea and involve Seoul in its nuclear planning operations.
In return, South Korea has agreed to not develop its own nuclear weapons. The Washington declaration will strengthen the allies’ cooperation in deterring a North Korean attack.
US President Joe Biden welcomed South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to the White House to commemorate seventy years of the US-South Korea alliance and the war that made it happen.
During the visit, the Atlantic Council experts broke down the Washington Declaration on nuclear weapons, how the leaders are addressing Seoul’s concerns over US industrial policy and much more.
The new Nuclear Consultative Group that Biden and Yoon announced for the South Korea-US alliance is thought by many to be a major step forward for the alliance’s efforts to deter, prepare for, and respond to North Korea’s nuclear coercion tactics and aggression.
This meeting would now mark the day that the US-South Korea alliance truly became a nuclear-armed alliance—even though the nuclear weapons are still US-owned and US-controlled.
