President Joe Biden of The United States yesterday said the US is not discussing joint nuclear exercises with South Korea, against contradicting remarks by his South Korean counterpart as tensions flare with North Korea.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol had said that Seoul and Washington are discussing possible joint exercises using U.S. nuclear assets, while North Korean leader Kim Jong Un branded the South its “undoubted enemy”.
Yoon’s comments, in a newspaper interview published on Monday, followed his call for “war preparation” with an “overwhelming” capability, after a year of a record number of North Korean missile tests and the intrusion of North Korean drones into the South last week.
