Periodic visits by US nuclear ballistic missile-capable submarines to South Korea were one of several agreements reached by President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in April in response to North Korea’s expanding nuclear threat.
South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol boarded an American nuclear-capable submarine in the southern port city of Busan on Wednesday. It was the first time in more than four decades that a United States’ submarine of this type has docked in the country.
And the president’s visit to it was intended to send a strong message to North Korea.
“South Korea and the US will show overwhelming response to North Korea’s heightened nuclear threats through Nuclear Consultative Group and by regularly deploying strategic assets such as SSBNs (ballistic missile submarines),” Yoon said.
Periodic visits by US nuclear ballistic missile-capable submarines to South Korea were one of several agreements reached by President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in April in response to North Korea’s expanding nuclear threat.
They also agreed to further expand combined military exercises, strengthen joint planning for nuclear contingencies and establish a bilateral Nuclear Consultative Group, which held its inaugural meeting in Seoul on Tuesday.
Source : Euronews