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U.S.-South Korea Nuclear Submarine Cooperation
In October 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump expressed his approval for South Korea to build a nuclear-powered attack submarine in the United States. But no progress has been made on the issue since then.
In this virtual event for KEI’s upcoming Korea Policy journal, KEI Senior Fellow and Director of Academic Programs Ellen Kim hosts Korea Institute for Defense Analyses’ Jihoon Yu to assess where U.S.-South Korea nuclear submarine cooperation stands after the May 11 meeting between Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Minister of National Defense Ahn Gyu-back.
Jihoon Yu is Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses. He served twenty-seven years in the South Korean Navy as a submarine officer and strategic planner, was a member of the Navy's task force on the CVX light aircraft carrier, and is the principal author of "Vision 2045." He holds an MA in national security affairs from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and a PhD in political science from Syracuse University.
Read more in the Spring/Summer 2026 issue of Korea Policy, KEI's flagship journal, which will be released in June.
[This material is distributed by KEI on behalf of the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy. Additional information is available at the Department of Justice, Washington, DC.]
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In October 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump expressed his approval for South Korea to build a nuclear-powered attack submarine in the United States. But no progress has been made on the issue since then.
In this virtual event for KEI’s upcoming Korea Policy journal, KEI Senior Fellow and Director of Academic Programs Ellen Kim hosts Korea Institute for Defense Analyses’ Jihoon Yu to assess where U.S.-South Korea nuclear submarine cooperation stands after the May 11 meeting between Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Minister of National Defense Ahn Gyu-back.
Jihoon Yu is Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses. He served twenty-seven years in the South Korean Navy as a submarine officer and strategic planner, was a member of the Navy's task force on the CVX light aircraft carrier, and is the principal author of "Vision 2045." He holds an MA in national security affairs from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and a PhD in political science from Syracuse University.
Read more in the Spring/Summer 2026 issue of Korea Policy, KEI's flagship journal, which will be released in June.
[This material is distributed by KEI on behalf of the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy. Additional information is available at the Department of Justice, Washington, DC.]