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+ O OCTOBER 2020 Elections, Nukes, and the Future of the South Korea–U.S. Alliance TOBY DALTON AND AIN HAN INTRODUCTION fte impressive victory of President Moon Jae-in’s Democratic Party in South Korea’s April 2020 Na- tional Assembly elections obscured underlying security policy tensions within South Korea (or the Republic of Korea, ROK). ftese tensions reflect a deep and long- standing domestic split over how to deal with a nuclear North Korea and, to a lesser extent, concerns about the security alliance with the United States amid rising re- gional threats. In public op