South Korea’s Lee Asks Trump to Revise Decades-Old Nuclear Pact

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung asked US President Donald Trump to allow Seoul to get supplies of nuclear fuel for submarines and to revise a decades-old nuclear energy agreement as the two leaders met Wednesday in Gyeongju.

“If we could secure approval for nuclear fuel supply, we would be able — using our own technology — to build several conventionally armed submarines,” Lee said. “They could patrol and defend both the East and West Seas of the Korean Peninsula, which in turn would significantly reduce the operational burden on US forces.”