North Korea South Korea Issue: Tension has increased between South Korea and North Korea in North-East Asia. South Korea has done a joint air exercise with the US, which included strategic bombers and stealth fighter jets. When South Korea informed about this joint air exercise on Thursday, it was seen as a warning to Pyongyang.
South Korea’s Defense Ministry said that in the air exercise on Wednesday, US cooperation against North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats and the capabilities of our defense system were tested. The joint air exercise came a day after US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his South Korean counterpart vowed to boost security cooperation to counter an increasingly aggressive nuclear-armed North Korea.
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America and South Korea exercise
This was the first military exercise between South Korea and America in North-East Asia. South Korea’s Defense Ministry said their maneuvers involved long-range heavy bombers and stealth fighter jets – including US Air Force F-22s, US B-1s and South Korean F-35s – in Yellow Sea.
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North Korea’s statement has come on this exercise. He said that such maneuvers would lead to unrest in the region. A spokesman for North Korea’s foreign ministry said the joint exercise between Seoul and Washington had crossed the “red-line”. Earlier, North Korea had declared itself a nuclear power and conducted a weapon test almost every month in defiance of international sanctions.
North Korea warned
A North Korean statement on KCNA, using the country’s official name, said the promotion of US-South Korea military drills and the deployment of strategic weapons in the region “is part of talks about the use of nuclear weapons against North Korea”. “As it is. The statement warned that North Korea would adhere to its nuclear doctrine. At the same time, North Korea accused South Korea of increasing the all-round confrontation.
‘Not interested in talks with America’
North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said that we are not interested in any kind of contact or dialogue with the US as long as it continues its hostile policy and line of confrontation.
