The U.S. plans to send nuclear-armed submarines to South Korea for the first time in decades, officials say.
The planned dock visits are a key element of what's being dubbed the"Washington Declaration," aimed at deterring North Korea from carrying out an attack on its neighbor. It is being unveiled asduring a moment of heightened anxiety for both leaders over an increased pace of ballistic missile tests by North Korea over the last several months.
US First Lady Jill Biden, from right, US President Joe Biden, Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea's president, and Kim Keon Hee, first lady of South Korea, at the Korean War Memorial in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, April 25, 2023. , Mr. Biden and Yoon first met in Cambodia in November and in February, agreed to make to make the declaration the centerpiece of Yoon's current visit to Washington.
The agreement also calls for the U.S. and South Korean militaries to strengthen joint training and better integrate South Korean military assets into the joint strategic deterrence effort. But in 1991, the United States withdrew all of its nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula, and the following year Seoul and Pyongyang signed a joint declaration pledging that neither would"test, manufacture, produce, receive, possess, store, deploy or use nuclear weapons." But as the North has repeatedly violated the joint declaration over the years, there's been increased support in South Korea for the United States to return nuclear weapons to the country.
In the past year, North Korea has been steadily expanding its nuclear arsenal, while China and Russia repeatedly block U.S.-led efforts to toughen sanctions on the North over its barrage of banned missile tests.
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