Like South Korea, the United States has offered vaccines against COVID-19 to North Korea, which officially recorded cases and deaths on its territory last week.
We offer vaccines, not only in North Korea but also in China, and we are ready to do that right away.Biden said at a press conference in Seoul. We got no responseHe added.
Mr. Biden is also open to meeting with the North Korean dictator, as his predecessor did, if the latter is interested. Any encounter depends on whether he is honest or nothe said after meeting with his South Korean counterpart Yoon Suek-yeol.
Despite this partial mandate, the allies first viewed North Korea as a threat, so they agreed to further strengthen their military cooperation.
Because of the emerging threat of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea [RPDC, le sigle officiel de la Corée du Nord, NDLR]the two leaders agreed to start talks to expand the scope and scope of joint training and military exercises in and around the Korean Peninsulaaccording to a joint statement released after the summit.
nuclear threat
The statement came as South Korean intelligence services warned that North Korea had already completed preparations to conduct a nuclear test, which would be the seventh in its history and the first in five years.
Washington does not rule out a teasing of Pyongyang during or just after Mr. Biden’s tour of Asia.
Either way, the decision on whether or not to conduct a nuclear test will be key in setting the path for US-South Korean relations in President Yoon’s five-year term, the former AFP analyst told AFP. CIA Soo Kim.
If Kim conducts a trial run on Biden’s visit, he will definitely help both countries find a bigger rationale for cooperation on the North Korea issue.he says.
North Korea has stepped up their weapons tests since the beginning of the year. Talks to disarm him have stalled since the failed summit in 2019 between Kim Jong Un and then U.S. President Donald Trump.
Source: Radio-Canada
