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Full Version: US nuclear sub docks in South Korea for first time in 42 years
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Armed with 20 Trident II D-5 submarine-launched ballistic missiles, the USS Kentucky serves as a formidable deterrent aimed at discouraging a nuclear attack. Nuclear-armed submarines are one component of the U.S. nuclear triad along with land-launched nuclear missiles and nuclear-capable strategic aircraft.

A deployment of a nuclear-armed submarine is part of the Washington Declaration, in which President Yoon Suk Yeol and U.S. President Joe Biden agreed in April to send ballistic missile submarines to the Korean Peninsula.

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/...55196.html