Seoul Must Not Reduce Its Security Before Pyongyang Reduces Its Threat | The Heritage Foundation

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : In 1972, the Koreas agreed to "implement appropriate measures to stop military provocation which may lead to unintended armed conflicts.
48% : The treaty also included extensive provisions for destruction of excess treaty-limited items, notifications, information exchanges, and intrusive inspections of declared and non-declared facilities.
47% : Even a limited declaration can create a domino-effect advocacy for prematurely signing a peace treaty, ending joint military drills, disbanding United Nations Command, abrogating the mutual defense treaty, and creating societal and legislative momentum in both South Korea and the U.S. for reduction or removal of U.S. forces before reducing the North Korean threat that necessitated American involvement.
46% : End South Korea's development of M-SAM and L-SAM missile defense programs and SM-3/6 procurement?Reducing Deterrence Before Reducing the ThreatAfter the U.S.-North Korean summit in Singapore in 2018, President Trump unilaterally decided to end allied "war games" (North Korea's derogatory term for joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises, previously rejected by Washington and Seoul) on the Korean peninsula.
42% : "The U.S. has already repeatedly provided non-hostility declarations and promises not to attack North Korea, either with conventional or nuclear weapons.

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