President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks throughout an an interview with US journal Newsweek on the presidential workplace in Yongsan, central Seoul on Oct. 16. (Presidential workplace)
President Yoon Suk Yeol mentioned a nuclear-based alliance between South Korea and the US will instantly strike if North Korea makes an attempt a nuclear assault towards the South, in keeping with an interview printed Friday.
Yoon made the comment throughout an interview with US journal Newsweek to handle rising issues over North Korea’s evolving nuclear and missile threats.
“I imagine that it might be irrational for them to determine to wage a nuclear assault towards the Republic of Korea and may they achieve this the nuclear-based ROK-U.S. alliance will instantly strike North Korea with the US nuclear weapon,” Yoon mentioned, referring to South Korea’s official title.
Yoon highlighted South Korea’s superior protection and assault capabilities towards the North’s potential nuclear assaults.
“We have now our capabilities and we’re enhancing {our capability} to strike the launching level and to intercept their missiles and to strike their command and management facilities,” he mentioned.
Yoon reiterated South Korea’s stance towards creating its personal nuclear weapons, cautioning such a transfer might immediate neighboring international locations like Japan and Taiwan to pursue nuclear arms and escalate regional tensions.
He mentioned Seoul stays dedicated to countering Pyongyang’s nuclear threats by means of the Nuclear Consultative Group, established as a part of the Washington Declaration agreed upon throughout his summit with US President Joe Biden in April 2023. (Yonhap)
