South Korea’s president said Monday that his nation is in talks with the United States about possible joint exercises using U.S. nuclear assets, after North Korea called for “an exponential increase” in its nuclear arsenal.
“Nuclear weapons belong to the United States, but information sharing, planning, and training must be jointly conducted by South Korea and the United States,” President Yoon Suk-yeol told Chosun Ilbo newspaper.
Yoon did not go into detail about their discussion, but he said that the U.S. side was “quite positive” about the idea.
According to him, the U.S. strategy of providing a “nuclear umbrella” or “extended deterrence” to South Korea is not reassuring enough to guarantee public safety now that North Korea has developed its own nuclear weapons….