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Podcast: Fault Lines
Episode: Episode 176: South Korea’s Security Jitters
Description: Today, Les, Jess, and Jamil discussed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s recent announcement made in South Korea that in response to a growing North Korean nuclear threat, the U.S. will increase its deployment of advanced weapons such as fighter jets and bombers to the Korean Peninsula and alongside our South Korean partners. However, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has said that South Korea might need nuclear weapons of its own.What can the U.S. do to assure South Korea that the U.S. will come to their defense in case of conflict? Is th...