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Limited Leverage: Nuclear Latency in South Korea’s Alliance Bargaining

After President Yoon’s January 2023 public, not-so-veiled proliferation threat, the April 2023 Washington Declaration was a two-way exchange of assurances: South Korea reaffirmed its commitment to abstain from developing nuclear weapons, while the US agreed to augment its security reassurances in return.

by Ankit Panda and Tristan Volpe
published by
The Washington Quarterly
 on April 16, 2024

The Washington Quarterly

Nuclear PolicyEast Asia
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