The new nuclear deterrence effort calls for periodically docking U. The officials said the so-called Washington Declaration was designed to allay South Korean fears over the North’s aggressive nuclear weapons program and to keep the country from restarting its own nuclear program, which it gave up nearly 50 years ago when it signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Asked at the joint news conference if the leak came up in their private talks, Yoon replied, “We are communicating between our two countries