Seoul says talks underway over joint nuclear exercises

By Agence France-Presse

Jan 03, 2023 5:17 pm

SEOUL: Seoul and Washington are discussing joint planning and exercises involving US nuclear assets to counter growing threats from the North, South Korea's presidential office said Tuesday, after US President Joe Biden said there would be no such joint drills.

The statement was released after Biden said the United States was not discussing joint nuclear exercises with South Korea, seemingly contradicting comments by Seoul's President Yoon Suk-yeol earlier this week.

This picture taken on December 31, 2022 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on January 1, 2023 shows a ceremony of donating 600mm Super-large Multiple Launch Rocket System in the yard of the headquarters of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang. AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS

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