SEOUL: South Korea has agreed to buy US weapons worth “billions of dollars” to guard against threats from nuclear-armed North Korea, US President Donald Trump said Tuesday.

After a summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-In, Trump also said the US—the South’s key security guarantor—had agreed to remove a warhead weight limit on Seoul’s ballistic missiles.

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