A new partnership between the United States and South Korea to equip the later nation with its own nuclear-powered submarines is a golden opportunity to bolster joint undersea defense capabilities and forge a new "allied industrial pathway," according to Yea Kyung Han, an executive at South Korean defense conglomerate Hanwha. “My takeaway from [the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum] is that South Korea’s SSN ambition is not about the prestige, it is about allied undersea resilience, and the Philly Shipyard pathway...
