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 by AFP Staff Writers Seoul (AFP) Jan 31, 2023
The United States and South Korea will hold discussion-based exercises on addressing nuclear threats, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday. Washington and Seoul will conduct "increasingly complex scenario-based tabletop exercises focused on nuclear threats on the peninsula," Austin wrote in an op-ed published by the Yonhap news agency, without specifying when this would occur. Austin is visiting Seoul for the third time as defence secretary, during which he is to meet with his South Korean counterpart Lee Jong-sup and President Yoon Suk-yeol. His visit is aimed at deepening cooperation and discussing security challenges, as well as reaffirming "that the US extended deterrence commitment to the ROK (Republic of Korea) is ironclad," he wrote. Military tensions on the Korean peninsula rose sharply last year as the North conducted sanctions-busting weapons tests nearly every month, including firing its most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un also recently called for an "exponential" increase in Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal, and declared the North an "irreversible" nuclear state last year.
Pompeo says US averted nuclear war between India, Pakistan Washington (AFP) Jan 24, 2023 Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo wrote in a book published Tuesday that India and Pakistan came close to nuclear war in 2019 and that US intervention prevented escalation. "I do not think the world properly knows just how close the India-Pakistan rivalry came to spilling over into a nuclear conflagration in February 2019," the likely future presidential contender wrote in "Never Give an Inch," his memoir of his time as Donald Trump's top diplomat and earlier CIA chief. India in February ... read more
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