Planning, information sharing, exercises and training should be jointly conducted by South Korea and the United States, Yoon says
South Korea and the United States are discussing possible joint planning and exercises using U.S. nuclear assets in the face of North Korea’s growing nuclear and missile threats, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said in a newspaper interview.
The term means the ability of the U.S. military, particularly its nuclear forces, to deter attacks on U.S. allies. Yoon’s remarks come a day after North Korean state media reported that its leader Kim Jong Un called for developing new intercontinental ballistic missiles and an “exponential increase” of the country’s nuclear arsenal to counter U.S.-led threats amid flaring tension between the rival Koreas.
At a meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party last week, Kim said South Korea has now become the North’s “undoubted enemy” and rolled out new military goals, hinting at another year of intensive weapons tests and tension.On Sunday, North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile off its east coast, in a rare late-night, New Year’s Day weapons test, following three ballistic missiles launched on Saturday, capping a year marked by a record number of missile tests.
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