The United States has had no success in persuading Kim Jong Un’s North Korean regime to denuclearize, but a new deal in reaffirming a 70-year treaty will keep South Korea from building its own nuclear arsenal.
In exchange for South Korea’s commitment to remain in compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the United States will double down on the “nuclear” component of its “nuclear deterrence” strategy against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
The shift from “denuclearization” to “nuclear deterrence” in dealing with North Korea was the key distinction in the ‘Washington Declaration’ unveiled by U.S. President Joe Biden and Republic of Korea’s (ROK) Yoon Suk Yeol after a ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the US-ROK alliance in Washington on April 26….