South Koreans want their own nukes. That could roil one of the world’s most dangerous regions

The alliance with the United States has allowed South Korea to build a strong democracy with citizens confident Washington would protect them if North Korea ever acted on its dream of unifying the peninsula under its own rule.

By Foster Klug
November 30, 2023
AP Photo/Lee Jin-man
Foster Klug

Foster Klug is AP news director for the Koreas, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific and has covered nuclear issues on the Korean Peninsula and in Asia since 2005.

 
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