South Korea, US discussing joint nuclear exercises

SpaceWar.com reports: “Seoul and Washington are discussing joint planning and exercises involving US nuclear assets to counter growing threats from the nuclear-armed North, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has said.

In an interview with the Chosun Ilbo newspaper published Monday, Yoon said the United States’ existing ‘nuclear umbrella’ and ‘extended deterrence’ were no longer enough to reassure South Koreans.

‘The nuclear weapons belong to the United States, but the planning, information sharing, exercises and training must be done jointly by South Korea and the United States,’ Yoon said, adding that the US was ‘quite positive’ about the idea.

His comments came a day after the North’s state media reported that leader Kim Jong Un had called for an ‘exponential’ increase in his country’s nuclear arsenal and new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) to counter what it termed US and South Korean hostility…”

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