The United States ignores the region’s lived experience—and the tough political and social trade-offs the war has produced—at its peril.
Evan A. Feigenbaum
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New public opinion data finds robust support for a domestic nuclear weapons program in South Korea.
Senior Fellow and Co-director, Nuclear Policy Program
Toby Dalton is a senior fellow and co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment. An expert on nonproliferation and nuclear energy, his work addresses regional security challenges and the evolution of the global nuclear order.
Karl Friedhoff
Karl Friedhoff is the Marshall M. Bouton fellow for Asia Studies at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Lami Kim
Lami Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College, a US-Korea nextgen scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and an adjunct fellow at Pacific Forum.
Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.
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