South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has said a new nuclear consultative group between South Korea and the United States would be a “starting point” to build strong and effective deterrence against North Korea.
Officials from the United States and South Korea are meeting on July 18 in Seoul for the first Nuclear Consultative Group (NCG) discussion, aimed at better coordinating the allied nuclear response in the event of a war with North Korea.
“Through a South Korea-U.S. alliance upgraded to a new nuclear-based paradigm, we will make substantial efforts to fundamentally block North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats,” Yoon told a briefing.
The NCG was first announced during the bilateral summit in Washington in April amid growing calls in South Korea for its own nuclear weapons, a step Washington opposes.
China and North Korea have criticized the group’s formation as further raising tensions on the Korean peninsula.
Source : TVP
