![]() ![]() “We intend to take steps to make our deterrence more visible through the regular deployment of strategic assets, including a US nuclear ballistic submarine visit to South Korea, which has not happened since the early 1980s,” a senior White House official said earlier this year. ![]() North Korea fires long-range missile ahead of South Korea, Japan meeting Washington announced in April that the US would be sending the sub to South Korea in an effort to better coordinate with its allies in the area in the event of North Korea engaging in war or nuclear conflict. Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile is launched from an undisclosed location in North Korea in this image released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency on July 13, 2023. “Openly discussing the use of nukes against the DPRK and the entry of US strategic nuclear submarine into waters of the Korean Peninsula for the first time in 40-odd years,” Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and a senior official in her own right, said in a statement Monday according to CNN. The US and South Korean panel was set up by the countries’ leaders at a summit in Washington D.C. On Monday, the isolated nation condemned the actions of its neighboring Korea and the US for its discussions of the possible use of nuclear weapons during the inaugural meeting in Seoul of the Nuclear Consultative Group (NCG). The move is an effort to display America’s strong commitment to its South Korean allies as tensions on the peninsula continue to boil. North Korea - following its test firing of intercontinental ballistic missiles last week - warned against America and its allies’ flaunting of military force near its borders. The Ohio-class submarines have the payload ability to carry 20 Trident II D5 Missiles - with each missile capable of being equipped with eight nuclear warheads and can hit targets as far away as 7,500 miles, according to the outlet.īusan is a little more than 300 miles south of the capital of Pyongyang, North Korea. The USS Kentucky is an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine can reportedly hit targets as far away as 7,500 miles. “The United States’ ironclad commitment to the Republic of Korea for our extended deterrence guarantee,” the US military said in a statement on Tuesday, using South Korea’s official name. “As we speak, an American nuclear submarine is making port in Busan today,” Kurt Campbell, the White House Indo-Pacific coordinator, told reporters in Seoul on Tuesday.Ĭampbell did not identify the submarine by name during his comments to the press - but it was later confirmed to be the USS Kentucky, an Ohio class SSBN (Sub-surface ballistic nuclear), by South Korea’s defense ministry. The real ‘murder’ story behind Florence Pugh’s ‘Oppenheimer’ characterĪ US nuclear-capable submarine has made port in South Korea for the first time in four decades - days following North Korea’s testing of an intercontinental ballistic missile. Nuclear doomsday threat is ‘great and growing,’ scientists urgently warnĮx-Russian president threatens nuclear attack to halt counter-offensive: ‘No other option’ Hiroshima mayor rips growing support for nuclear weapons as city marks 78th anniversary of bombing ![]()
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