Yoon Suk-yeol meets Joe Biden in Washington amid concerns in South over North’s nuclear buildup
, and calls for Seoul to develop its own nuclear arsenal. The Biden administration is seeking to reassure the South Koreans of the US’s security commitment, amid signs that the North has made significant advances in its weapons programme, despite years of international sanctions targeting the regime in Pyongyang.
The South gave up its nuclear weapons programme almost 50 years ago when it signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and officials in Washington are eager for that stance to continue, fearing that the peninsula could become the centre of a potentially dangerous arms race between North and South. Yoon, a conservative who has ditched his liberal predecessor’s policy of engaging with the North, earlier this year said his country was weighing developing its own nuclear weapons or asking the US to redeploy them on the peninsula.
To underline the presence of the nuclear umbrella, US ballistic submarines armed with nuclear missiles will make port visits in South Korea for the first time since 1991.
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