The Biden administration says it's restricting the use of anti-personnel land mines by the U.S. military, reversing a more permissive stance by then-President Trump. An international treaty — which the U.S. hasn't signed — bans the deadly explosives.
“As welcome as this step is, the White House needs to put the U.S. on a definitive path to join the treaties banning anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions,” he said in a statement. “Neither of these indiscriminate weapons, the horrific consequences of which we are seeing in Ukraine today, belong in the arsenals of civilized nations.”its efforts to help defend South Korea
The U.S. has a stockpile of 3 million anti-personnel land mines. Under the new policy, any that aren’t needed to protect South Korea will be destroyed. The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a question about whether any will be discarded.
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