White House says denuclearization is possible through diplomacy
Presidential Office “Considering Multiple Options”
Chung Sye-kyun: “North Korea ranks fourth to fifth nuclear power
It is essential to operate the ROK-U.S.-Japan security solidarity.”
The U.S. government announced on the 11th (local time) that U.S. President Joe Biden has confirmed a full range of deterrence commitments, including nuclear weapons, in connection with the controversy over the relocation of tactical nuclear weapons over North Korea’s nuclear weapons threat.
White House National Security Council (NSC) Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby said in a video briefing on the same day that the South Korean side would leave the South Korean side to reveal its position and wishes on the alliance issue. . In addition, to the question of whether the South Korean government had requested the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons against the United States, he responded in principle, saying, “Our goal is the complete and verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.” Considering that it is a sensitive diplomatic matter, it seems that he avoided an active and critical response.
State Department spokeswoman Ned Price also said, “We should ask South Korea about the Korean issue.” “President Biden confirmed his commitment to extended deterrence to South Korea covering the full range of nuclear and conventional weapons and missiles,” he said.
“We have experienced periods of provocation from North Korea, and we are one of them,” Price said. “Our purpose is to make it clear that we will pay the price until this is ready.”
A high-ranking official at the presidential office said on the 12th, “President Yoon Seok-yeol is basically looking at various options after focusing on the groundbreaking reinforcement of extended deterrence.” Some are also watching the joint statement of the leaders of the Republic of Korea and the United States in May that indicated their will to respond with ‘nuclear to nuclear’. At the time, the two leaders said that they “confirmed the United States’ commitment to extended deterrence against the Republic of Korea using the full range of defense capabilities available, including nuclear, conventional and missile defense capabilities.”
Kim Seong-han, head of the National Security Office, attended a foreign press conference on the same day and emphasized, “We will guide North Korea to make the right choice together with the international community supporting the denuclearization of North Korea, while working closely with China to achieve this.”
Former Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun, who is visiting the United States, gave a keynote speech at a roundtable of foreign affairs and security experts held at the University of Pennsylvania on the same day, saying, “North Korea is in fact the fourth or fifth largest nuclear power in the world.” “It’s worse than when US President Donald Trump spoke of ‘Fire & Fury’ and ‘Bloody Nose’.” “With China’s military prowess and the rise of the Northern Trilateral Regiment between North Korea, China and Russia, security cooperation among the South Korea, the United States, and Japan, that is, the operation of the Southern Trilateral Regiment, is becoming an inevitable reality,” Jeong said. said
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