further consequence should be noted. The unpopularity of the war, and the
cost of theconventional armshardware and tactics it involved, convinced
President Dwight Eisenhower, who came to office towards the end of the war,
that US military policy should be primarily nuclear, with all the inevitable
development of nuclearstrategyand hardware that followed. North Korea
remains to this day one of the states identified by the USA as a threat to world
security, and the US military presence in the south, while reduced, remains
numerically significant.
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