The paper says it is about time South Korea, US took the joint response to North Korea nukes to a higher level. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SEOUL - US President Joe Biden said “no” when asked by a reporter at the White House on Tuesday if he was currently discussing joint nuclear exercises with South Korea.
Yoon’s top adviser for press affairs, Kim Eun-hye, said that probably Biden had no other choice but to answer “no” because a reporter asked him the question abruptly without context. She added that “joint nuclear exercises can only be held between nuclear weapons states.” North Korean leader Kim Jong-un recently vowed to increase his country’s nuclear weapons arsenal “exponentially” and singled out South Korea as an “undoubted enemy.” He also vowed to develop a new type of intercontinental ballistic missiles that would give the North a “quick counterstrike capability.” Last year, it approved a new law authorizing the preemptive use of nuclear weapons.
Few US presidents would take the risk of sacrificing a large number of US citizens for the sake of defending South Korea. The US has defended non-nuclear allies through its nuclear umbrella and extended deterrence, but North Korea’s ceaseless development of ICBM and nuclear weapon programs arouses concerns about the effectiveness of the US nuclear umbrella.
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