America sends a nuclear submarine to South Korea after 40 years

The United States is sending a nuclear submarine to South Korea for the first time in four decades as part of a new deterrence arrangement between Washington and Seoul, Fars International News Agency reported.

The White House has called the arrangement, which is set to be formalized by Joe Biden later today (Wednesday, April 26), the most important of its kind since the Cold War. According to a senior White House official, these arrangements under the “Washington Declaration” are designed to strengthen America’s deterrence commitments to South Korea in the face of threats from its northern neighbor.

According to the American publication New York Post, the official said: We intend to take steps to make our deterrence more visible through the regular deployment of strategic assets, including the presence of a nuclear ballistic submarine in South Korea, which has not happened since the early 1980s. do.

According to this report, this understanding will be the culmination of the official visit of South Korean President Yoon Seok-yul to the White House. According to this senior Biden administration official, the announcement also announced the creation of a new US-South Korea nuclear advisory group aimed at improving nuclear-related information sharing.

Joe Biden is scheduled to unveil Washington’s declaration during the official visit of his South Korean counterpart to the White House. According to the New York Post, the new provisions in the announcement are designed to bolster public confidence in South Korea and the government’s confidence in the United States’ commitment and show a united front against North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Earlier, the Associated Press reported, quoting several senior officials of the US government, that Joe Biden will use the opportunity of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s official visit to the US to unveil the strengthening of Washington’s nuclear protection umbrella measures for Seoul against North Korea.

In March, the US and South Korea held their largest field exercise in recent years. Joint exercises that are met with expressions of anger and condemnation from North Korea.

Recently, in the meeting of the Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party, the leader of North Korea asked the political and military officials of his country to pursue war deterrence in a more aggressive manner.

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