SEOUL: North Korea criticised a recent US-South Korea agreement to bolster the deployment of American strategic assets in the region for escalating tension to the 'brink of a nuclear war,' state media KCNA said on Monday (May 1). US President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol held a summit
SEOUL: North Korea criticised a recent US-South Korea agreement to bolster the deployment of American strategic assets in the region for escalating tension to the"brink of a nuclear war," state media KCNA said on Monday .
Both leaders agreed to strengthen South Korea's defences and regularly deploy US strategic assets. As part of the efforts, a US Navy nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine will visit South Korea for the first time since the 1980s. The stationing of American strategic assets has placed the situation of the Korean peninsula in a"quagmire of instability", and was intended to build"aggressive and exclusive military blocs" in the region, it said.
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