The President of the Asian country, Yun Seok-yeol, and the American leader, Joe Biden, signed a document providing “nuclear deterrence” of neighboring North Korea.
South Korea’s cooperation with the United States has been strengthened at the nuclear level, capable of deterring any nuclear threat from North Korea. This is what the country’s President Yoon Seok Yeol said, reports the South Korean news agency Yonhap.
Yoon Seok Yeol and US President Joe Biden signed a document last week in Washington on the sidelines of the NATO summit Nuclear deterrence and nuclear operations on the Korean Peninsulawhich contains basic principles for the signatories’ response to nuclear threats from the DPRK.
“The United States will assign a special mission from its nuclear forces on the Korean Peninsula, both in wartime and in peacetime, whose task is to respond quickly and effectively to any nuclear threat by North Korea, ” said Yoon Seok-yeol.
The signing of the agreement marks the end of efforts by the two countries to obtain a US commitment to Extended Deterrence against North Korea, which requires the United States to mobilize its full military capabilities, including nuclear weapons, to defend ally.
Then last month the leaders of North Korea and Russia, Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin signed an agreement on the development of strategic relations between the two countries, providing assistance from one country to the other if there is aggression against it, there. is discussing in Seoul the need to develop its own nuclear weapons, however, Washington is firmly against this.
We remind you that Seoul will make a decision on supporting Kyiv with weapons, focusing on how the new agreement between Moscow and Pyongyang will work.
Source: korrespondent
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