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A special bill on nuclear-powered submarines working through South Korea's legislative process will specify the country's commitment to refrain from developing nuclear weapons.
The legislation packages an advanced naval propulsion agenda and a written non-proliferation assurance into a single piece of statute. Formal passage is the next concrete milestone to watch.
What the bill covers The proposed law centers on nuclear-powered submarines. Within that frame, it goes a step further.
The bill will include language that explicitly binds South Korea to abstaining from nuclear weapons development, writing that renunciation directly into the same legal vehicle that addresses submarine propulsion.
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