What Biden Is Doing to Keep South Korea From Going Nuclear | 2023 | News
What Biden Is Doing to Keep South Korea From Going Nuclear
His meeting with President Yoon Suk-Yeol revealed a few things about why nukes are still so important to U.S. foreign policy.
Fred Kaplan | Slate
April 28, 2023
![U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol in the Rose Garde](https://ssp-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/sites/default/files/newspage/042723-Kaplan-Slate-400x400.jpg)
"The upshot - expressed in a document heftily titled the 'Washing Declaration,' signed by Biden and Yoon - pledges that the U.S. will make its extended deterrent more palpable. In exchange, South Korea will refrain from going nuclear itself."
--SSP alum Fred Kaplan in Slate