The United States, Japan and South Korea warned on Wednesday that a North Korean nuclear experience would call for a “unprecedented strong response”, and pledged to stacking the ranks after a number of missile tests conducted by the isolated state.
Following discussions in Tokyo, the foreign ministers of these nations declared that they would use deterrent tactics in the area.
“We have agreed to enhance cooperation so that North Korea could stop its illegal activities and return to nuclear disarmament talks,” said South Korea Foreign Minister Chu Hyun Dong.
According to him, if North Korea left with its seventh nuclear experience, “the three countries agreed on the need for an unprecedented robust response.
“After a succession of ballistic missile launch tests, Seoul and Washington frequently warned Pyongyang that it might be about to conduct an atomic bomb test for the first time since 2017.
Last month, one of these missiles flew over Japan, although North Korea claimed to have performed tactical nuclear tests.
“This behavior is reckless and greatly destabilizing,” said US Secretary of State Windy Sherman. insisted North Korea “refraining from stirring up more trouble.
The negotiations over Kim Jong Un’s outlawed armament programmes came to an end last month when he declared that North Korea had a “irreversible” nuclear force.
Kim met three times with former US President Donald Trump, which led to a reduction in tension, but without reaching a permanent agreement, and this country did not show great interest in accepting the presentation of the current President Joe Biden to hold talks at the level of work teams.
The increase in North Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes, according to Takio Mori, Japan’s deputy foreign minister, “is an obvious and dangerous challenge for the international community.”
In order to achieve North Korea’s nuclear disarmament, “we agreed to bolster deterrence in our region,” he stated. The three officials claimed that they also spoke about a number of other topics, such as the conflict in China, Taiwan, and the Ukraine.
However, according to Mori and Zhou, the discussions did not touch on the long-standing tense bilateral relations between Japan and South Korea.
In reaction to North Korea’s nuclear tests, the United States, Japan, and South Korea are threatening it with an unprecedented retaliation.
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