U.S. President Joe Biden hosted South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk-yeol for a summit in Washington in late April, where the two announced that they will establish a new nuclear consultation group to “discuss nuclear and strategic planning.”

However, Seoul appears to have tried to give a different interpretation of the Washington Declaration.

Following the summit, Yoon said the allies would use “the full force of the alliance including the United States’ nuclear weapons” in response to a North Korean nuclear attack. But the document says that the U.S. will “make every effort to