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Limited Leverage: Nuclear Latency in South Korea’s Alliance Bargaining

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.

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Ankit Panda

Stanton Senior Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program

Ankit Panda is the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Tristan Volpe

Former Nonresident Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program

Tristan Volpe was a nonresident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and assistant professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School.

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Ankit Panda
Stanton Senior Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program
Ankit Panda
Tristan Volpe
Former Nonresident Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program
Tristan Volpe
Nuclear PolicyEast AsiaSouth Korea

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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