Biden denied the South Korean leader’s remarks on joint nuclear exercise talks with the United States.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 – RIA Novosti. The White House press service said in a statement that US President Joe Biden denied meeting South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol on joint nuclear exercises with the US.

Yoon Seok-yeol previously said in an interview with the Joseon Ilbo newspaper that Seoul is negotiating with Washington to jointly plan and conduct exercises involving US nuclear forces against the alleged nuclear threat from North Korea. At the same time, he assured that South Korea would not acquire nuclear weapons.

The leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, earlier at the sixth plenary of the eighth meeting of the DPRK Workers Party, announced the need to strengthen the country’s nuclear forces, mass production of nuclear warheads, create a new instant-acting intercontinental ballistic missile system. quickly complete the counterattack and its reconnaissance satellite project and launch vehicle.

According to Kim Jong-un, the situation in which “South Korean puppets” have become openly enemies of North Korea requires an “exponential” increase in the number of nuclear warheads in the North Korean arsenal, emphasizing the importance and necessity of this. mass production of tactical nuclear weapons.