{"id":10408,"date":"2023-05-05T06:53:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T01:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10408"},"modified":"2025-03-29T20:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T14:35:24","slug":"what-is-the-washington-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-washington-declaration\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the \u2018Washington Declaration\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Washington Declaration:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was <strong>signed<\/strong> <strong>between the US and South Korea<\/strong> on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of U.S.-South Korea bilateral relations.<\/li>\n<li>The declaration <strong>outlines the cooperation towards nuclear deterrence.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose<\/strong>: <strong>Protect the Korean Peninsula from a nuclear attack<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>According to the declaration<\/strong>,\n<ul>\n<li>A <strong>US nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine (SSBN)would be deployed in the Korean peninsula;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>A <strong>joint Nuclear Consultative Group would be formed<\/strong> to formulate principles of <strong>joint response tactics<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li><strong>South Korea would receive intel from the US<\/strong> regarding nuclear advancements;<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>US will strengthen South Korea\u2019s nuclear deterrence capabilities<\/strong> through joint <strong>military training programs<\/strong> and an annual intergovernmental simulation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>declaration reaffirmed the non-proliferation Treaty<\/strong> implying that <strong>South Korea would not venture into the creation of its own independent nuclear capabilities<\/strong> and would instead focus on deterrence measures through an alliance-based approach.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It also mandates the US President as the only \u2018sole authority\u2019 to use the nuclear arsenal<\/strong> of the US in the event of a nuclear confrontation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is meant by nuclear deterrence?<\/h3>\n<p>Nuclear deterrence is an ideology dating back to the Cold War used to prevent any nuclear aggression and to maintain the status quo.It is used as a tactic and serves as a reminder of the consequences nation states can face if they choose to attack another country or state. It convinces a country not to pursue further action and is premised on the logic that the costs and losses that would incur outweigh the rewards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/explained-what-is-the-washington-declaration\/article66813713.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Explained | What is the Washington Declaration?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Declaration between the US and South Korea outlines the cooperation towards nuclear deterrence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","7":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}