The United States remains committed to using the full range of its military capabilities, including nuclear weapons, to defend South Korea from North Korean aggression, U.S. secretary of state Antony Blinken said on Friday.
Speaking alongside South Korean foreign minister Park Jin at a press conference, Blinken reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to improving its allied defense against common threats and the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
He referred to the U.S.-South Korea alliance as “the linchpin” of peace in the region and said that it seeks to boost trilateral security cooperation with Japan to deter North Korea’s missile provocations….