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South Korea as a Nuclear State: Trade-offs and Choices

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게재일자 2023년 10월 30일
기관 38 North
저자 JAGANNATH PANDA
키워드 #FOREIGN AFFAIRS   #MILITARY AFFAIRS   #WMD
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주요내용 South Korea’s launch of its Indo-Pacific strategy in December 2022 started the country’s ascent into “strategic clarity” for the US-led Indo-Pacific construct, winning favor with Washington for this policy shift. However, in January 2023, President Yoon Suk-yeol voiced the possibility of either building nuclear weapons indigenously or redeploying US tactical nuclear weapons in the face of an ever-growing nuclear threat from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea). This reoriented the debate on South Korea’s own nuclear ambitions.