The agreement between the United States and South Korea to strengthen U.S. extended deterrence does not constitute a “de facto nuclear sharing” between the two allies, a White House official said.
“I don’t think that we see this as a de facto nuclear sharing,” Edgard Kagan, special assistant to the president and senior director for East Asia and Oceania of the National Security Council, said Thursday.
“I think that we see this as a very significant strengthening of the partnership and the alliance between the ROK and the United States,” he added, referring to South Korea’s official name, the Republic of Korea, Yonhap News Agency reported….