South Korea’s ambition of deploying nuclear-powered submarines appeared to take a step closer to reality this week, after US President Donald Trump’s declaration that Seoul would build such a vessel in a Korean-owned shipyard in Philadelphia.
But Trump’s announcement on Thursday, a day after he was feted by his South Korean counterpart Lee Jae Myung, raised a host of questions about the implications of such a deal for both regional security and global nuclear proliferation.
Trump declared on his Truth Social platform that South Korea would “be building its Nuclear Powered Submarine in the Philadelphia Shipyards, right here in the good ol’ U.S.A.”.
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