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The United States and South Korea yesterday reaffirmed the decades-long military alliance between the two countries, including continued plans to use nuclear weapons to deter North Korean aggression.
"Over the past few years, we've made a number of adjustments in our relationship in this alliance, and as changes take place in our formal posture on the peninsula and elsewhere, we will preserve and strengthen the credibility of the deterrent against either overt aggression or nuclear blackmail," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told reporters at the end of the annual security consultative meeting with his South Korean counterpart, Defense Minister Yoon Kwang-ung.See the full content of this document
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U.S., South Korea Bolster Military Alliance
A joint communique issued at the end of the session stated that Mr. Rumsfeld and Mr. Yoon hope the North Korean military threat will diminish gradually through the six-party ...
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