In response, Kim Yo Jong said that North Korea feels that nuclear self-defense should be ‘improved further’. “The more the enemy conducts nuclear maneuvers, the more nuclear assets they deploy in the vicinity of the Korean Peninsula, the stronger our self-defense will be,” he said, as reported by KCNA. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his American counterpart Joe Biden have signed an agreement called ‘Washington Declaration’.
‘Agreement threatens the peace of Northeast Asia’
The deal further increases US nuclear aid to South Korea, which has unnerved North Korea. A US official told AFP the deal included “sustained deployment of strategic weapons”, including the maiden visit of a nuclear ballistic submarine to a South Korean port. Kim Yo Jong said, ‘This agreement will only affect the peace and security of Northeast Asia and the world may face more serious danger. This is a step which can never be welcomed.
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North Korea breaking sanctions
North Korea has been working on nuclear and missile programs for many years in defiance of punitive sanctions. This year, Kim Jong Un has conducted several record-breaking tests, defying sanctions. North Korea considers the joint military exercises of the US and South Korea as a threat to itself. It dubs its missile tests as ‘self-defense’. Although its missiles have been posing a threat to the security of regional countries like South Korea and Japan.