The United States and South Korea have vowed to mount an “overwhelming response” that they said would end the Kim Jong-un regime if North Korea launched a nuclear attack.
The two allied nations issued a joint communique on Thursday after a meeting between U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his South Korean counterpart, Lee Jong-sup, at the Pentagon.
Austin reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to provide South Korea “the full range of U.S. defense capabilities, including nuclear, conventional, and missile defense capabilities and advanced non-nuclear capabilities.”
He said that “any nuclear attack against the United States or its allies and partners, including the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons, is unacceptable and will result in the end of the Kim regime,” according to the statement….