Tag: South Korea

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KTSSMing Them Softly

Jeffrey and I have an article in Survival in which we reveal that, during 2024, South Korea deployed more than 300 Korea Tactical Surface-to-Surface Missile (KTSSM) short-range missiles. The numbers themselves are astonishing. But it’s the basing mode that really…

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Nuclear Risk-Reduction on the Korean Peninsula

Lyric of the week: “Don’t want to die in a Super 8 Motel just because somebody’s evening didn’t go so well”  — Jason Isbell, “Super 8” in the Southeastern album Every nuclear weapon awaits a set of circumstances that could…

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Nuclear Threats

Tense situations that prompt nuclear threats occur when one (or more) of three conditions exist: when the state issuing threats feels weak in some important respects, when other means of suasion are unsuccessful, and when the stakes involved are exceptionally…