President Joe Biden and his counterpart, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, will sign the new agreement in Washington on Wednesday, officials said.
The announcement is "purely symbolic" and intended "to reassure the South Korean public" that the U.S. still has its back, according to Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California. But the commitments "don't have any military value.
, in what analysts say is a meaningful advance in the country's efforts to build a nuclear arsenal that is harder to detect and capable of threatening anywhere in the continental U.S. In an exclusive interview with NBC News' Lester Holt, Yoon said it would not "shake the ironclad trust" between his country and Washington — although he acknowledged the awkwardness of the situation.
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