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After President Yoon’s January 2023 public, not-so-veiled proliferation threat, the April 2023 Washington Declaration was a two-way exchange of assurances: South Korea reaffirmed its commitment to abstain from developing nuclear weapons, while the US agreed to augment its security reassurances in return.
Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Ankit Panda is the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Nonresident Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program
Tristan Volpe is a nonresident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and assistant professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School.
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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