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The US and South Korea have drawn up a plan to meet the nuclear threat from North Korea. The plan includes the visit of nuclear-armed US submarines to a South Korean port for the first time in over 40 years.
US President Joe Biden received his South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk-Yeol at the White House on Wednesday. Faced with North Korea’s increasingly threatening rhetoric and stepped-up robot tests, the two countries have devised a plan to deter Pyongyang from following through on its threats.
The plan includes information exchange, but also to resume naval visits to South Korea by nuclear-armed American submarines. Such visits have not been carried out since the early 1980s.
Biden issued a warning to North Korea at the joint press briefing after the conversation with Yoon.
“A nuclear attack by North Korea against the United States or its allies and partners is unacceptable and would spell the end of whatever regime carries it out,” Biden said.
Yoon stressed that peace with North Korea can only be achieved through strength and that a nuclear attack by the northern neighbor will be met with US nuclear weapons.