North Korea on Thursday issued a warning over the US deployment of a nuclear-armed submarine to South Korea, saying the provocation could potentially justify Pyongyang using its nuclear weapons.
The Ohio-Class USS Kentucky docked in the South Korean port of Busan on Tuesday, marking the first time since 1981 that an American nuclear-armed submarine arrived in the country. It also marked the first time since the US withdrew its tactical nukes from South Korea in 1991 that US nuclear weapons were deployed to the Korean Peninsula.
The provocation coincided with the first meeting of the Nuclear Consultative Group (NCG), which was established by the US and South Korea to increase cooperation related to US nuclear weapons.
North Korean Defense Minister Kang Sun-nam slammed the US and South Korean cooperation on nuclear weapons in a press statement released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency. Kang said US and South Korean officials held the NCG meeting “to discuss the plan for using nuclear weapons against the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea].”
Discussing North Korea’s nuclear policy, Kang said, “I remind the US military of the fact that the ever-increasing visibility of the deployment of the strategic nuclear submarine and other strategic assets may fall under the conditions of the use of nuclear weapons specified in the DPRK law on the nuclear force policy.”
He said that Pyongyang’s nuclear doctrine “allows the execution of necessary action procedures in case a nuclear attack is launched against it or it is judged that the use of nuclear weapons against it is imminent.”
After US officials held the NCG meeting, they released a statement that said any nuclear attack from the North will “will result in the end of that regime.” South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Wednesday boarded the nuclear-armed USS Kentucky and repeated the “end of the regime” threat.
The US nuclear deployment in South Korea provoked more North Korean missile tests as the two sides continue tit-for-tat escalations. The Biden administration has shown no interest in easing tensions and has vowed to continue deploying strategic assets to the Korean Peninsula.
Another brilliant move by the Biden administration: Denuclearize Korea by nuclearizing it! (Sarcasm alert)
Biden is making much more serious mistakes the any president. I don’know whether it is Alzheimers or just general senility that is causing his problems. when we need capable adult intelligent leadership Sleepy Joe is coming up short. Messing with the lunatics in North Korea is not a smart play.
WAIT! I was following and nodding in agreement until this: “Messing with the lunatics in North Korea is not a smart play.” Is that what you’re getting out of continued US war on Korea for 70 years that killed 4 million Koreans? The North Koreans are lunatics because they’re against us for killing 4 million Koreans? WOW. You lost me there and probably forever. (Sarcasm alert)
The fact that Kim Jong may be a little nuts should serve as a VERY powerful deterrent.
“I got nukes and I ain’t afraid to use ‘em!”
Time for another display of NoKo’s 1960’s missile technology and an attempt to hit a ocean to show how upset they are.
Maybe it will miss the ocean but hit the sub?
South Korean President Yoon boarded the US submarine on Wednesday
that is ridiculous. “hey come in and check out our luxurious accommodations!”
Can you imagine boarding the accommodations inside the South Korean President’s skull? How rotten and ridiculous is it in there to bring a US nuclear submarine operated by US personnel that would not hesitate for a second before unleashing their precious cargo on your Korean cousins? How much cash does it take for people to act this way? Are we hiring them straight out of Satan’s school for demons? (Sarcasm alert)
Who do these US officials presume will be left to push the button after they convince NK that a nuclear attack has been launched?
Jesus, these guys have to bone up on the theory of MAD ( mutually assured destruction) it is unsettling at first but has worked for 70 years now.
These playground bullies gave North Korea a loop hole as big as a bunker buster bomb; Do what you will but don’t use a nuke.
“After US officials held the NCG meeting, they released a statement that said any nuclear attack from the North will “will result in the end of that regime.””