Episode Notes:

On this episode of Thinking the Unthinkable, Ankit sits down with Suon Choi, an associate research fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA) and an advisor to the Korean Ministry of National Defense, to talk about the assurance dilemmas at the heart of the U.S.-South Korean alliance today. They discuss the Washington Declaration, conventional nuclear integration, extended deterrence issues, how the United States and South Korea think about what does and does not deter Kim Jong Un, and South Korean demands for a commitment that the United States respond to any nuclear use by North Korea with nuclear use in turn, among much else.