North Korea‘s Kim Yo Jong called the “Washington Declaration” reached between Biden and Yoon “a product of the vicious hostile policy toward the DPRK which reflected the most antagonistic and aggressive will of action. It will bring about a result of exposing the peace and security of northeast Asia and the rest of the world to a more serious danger and so it is an act which can never be welcomed.”
In a statement the While House said, the US and South Korea discussed “how to plan for nuclear contingencies and cooperate on the Alliance’s approach to nuclear deterrence, given the growing threat posed by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).”
The US and South Korea also committed to enhancing the deployment of America’s “strategic assets in and around the Korean Peninsula, in particular U.S. nuclear-capable platforms. The Alliance is also expanding the scope and scale of joint exercises and maintaining regular, senior-level defense engagements and dialogues to contend with regional threats.”
North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong, who has been used as the face of the pressure campaign against the US and South Korea, added that while the two countries bring more nuclear assets into the region, North Korea will respond by boosting its arsenal “in direct proportion to it.”
“Of course, it may be called a nonsense of the old without future who will not be responsible for the security and prospect of the United States at all and considers it to be burdensome to stand only two years of his term of office in the future,” she said according to the North Korean state media.
North Korea has already fired 17 ballistic missiles this year, which included three intercontinental ballistic missiles designed to deliver a nuclear warhead to the US mainland. The country fired off more than 70 ballistic missiles last year, a record for the state.
