Progressive Foreign Policy Debrief
August 5, 2022 | Win Without War
Posted in: In the News
On June 21, President Biden reversed the Trump administration’s policy on the use of anti-personnel landmines, once again renouncing the use of these deadly weapons and bringing the United States closer into alignment with the Mine Ban Treaty. However, the policy leaves open the possibility of the use of landmines on the Korean Peninsula. While it is overall a positive development that President Biden reversed the dangerous position of the Trump administration, which loosened restrictions on the U.S. military’s use of landmines, the “Korean exception” is dangerous and unnecessary.