Accepting a nuclear North Korea was never US policy … until Trump 2.0?

Accepting a nuclear North Korea was never US policy … until Trump 2.0?

[South China Morning Post] - 01/22/2025

Donald Trump’s convention-busting acknowledgement of North Korea as a nuclear power bucks years of US policy – and sets South Korea on edge.



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