5/16/2023 0 Comments Nuclear time line north korea![]() ![]() Subscriber+Members have a higher level of access to Cipher Brief Expert Perspectives. I doubt most Americans know that North Korea’s possession and potential use of nuclear weapons are built into the country’s law, first by an act passed by its Supreme People’s Assembly back in 2013 and amended last year, on September 8, 2022. and South Korean officials met to talk about joint planning with conventional forces for the Korean Peninsula in the face of the North Korean threat. So far, there has been no publicly-known response from Pyongyang, other than multiple tests of North Korean ballistic missiles and threat of a new nuclear test. would meet with North Korean officials without preconditions to talk over both nuclear and non-nuclear issues. There is no scenario in which the Kim regime could employ nuclear weapons and survive.”īeyond that threat, the Biden administration strategy appears to be in a waiting game - that the U.S. Any nuclear attack by North Korea against the United States or its Allies and partners is unacceptable and will result in the end of that regime. ![]() The Biden NPR goes on to describe “our strategy for North Korea” was “to make clear to the Kim regime, the dire consequences should it use nuclear weapons. homeland and the Indo-Pacific region as it expands, diversifies, and improves its nuclear, ballistic missile, and non-nuclear capabilities… A crisis or conflict on the Korean Peninsula could involve a number of nuclear-armed actors, raising the risk of broader conflict.” ![]() The Biden administration’s 2022 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) recognized that North Korea “poses a persistent threat and growing danger to the U.S. defense capabilities including nuclear, conventional, and missile defense capabilities.” Presidents Biden and Yoon also agreed to resume the Extended Deterrence Strategy and Consultation Group (EDSCG), a forum for discussing diplomatic, economic, informational, and military coordination to deter threats to the alliance. extended deterrence commitment to the ROK using the full range of U.S. Supporting that, on May 21, 2022, in a joint leaders’ statement on the occasion of President Joe Biden’s visit to South Korea, Biden affirmed, “the U.S. Last Friday, talking to reporters at the Davos Conference, President Yoon backed down a bit and said, “I can assure you that the Republic of Korea’s realistic and rational option is to fully respect the NPT regime…I’m fully confident about the U.S.’s extended deterrence.” South Korea’s relatively new President Yoon Suk Yeol picked up on Kim’s remarks on January 11 when he said, “It’s possible that the problem gets worse and our country will reintroduce tactical nuclear weapons or build them on our own…If that’s the case, we can have our own nuclear weapons pretty quickly, given our scientific and technological capabilities,” according to a transcript of his remarks released by his office and obtained by The New York Times. To the contrary – Kim announced on New Year’s Eve, “the importance and necessity of a mass-producing of tactical nuclear weapons and…an exponential increase of the country’s nuclear arsenal.” ![]() to drop denuclearization of the Korean peninsula as its goal and begin to deal with North Korea as a nuclear weapons state, since Kim Jong-un, its leader, has shown no indication that he will ever give them up. ![]()
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