The USA and the South Korea they will conduct mock high schools dealing with the threat of nuclear weapons attack, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said today.
Washington and Seoul will proceed to “exercises based more and more complex scenarios for nuclear threats facing the peninsula,” Austin said in an article for South Korea’s national news agency Yonhap.
Austin is visiting Seoul for the third time since taking over as defense secretary. He met with his counterpart Lee Jong-sap and was also scheduled to be received by President Yoon Seok-gil.
His visit aims, as reported by APE-MPE, to deepen the cooperation between the two countries, to discuss security issues and to reaffirm the “American commitment to the prevention” of North Koreawhich is “expanded” and “unwavering,” according to Austin’s article.
Tension on the Korean Peninsula has skyrocketed in 2022, as North Korea carried out an unprecedented number of weapons tests, among other things launching an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of hitting the continental US in defiance of international sanctions.
Kim Jong Un announced in 2022 that his country aims to have the most powerful nuclear arsenal “in the world”, while in September he described North Korea’s nuclear power status as “irreversible”.
Seoul and Washington have been warning since last year that Pyongyang has practically completed its preparations to proceed with a new nuclear weapon test, the seventh in its history and the first since 2017.
Source: News Beast
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