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response to the talk of re-deploying tactical nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula, the United States expressed a principled position that the goal of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula through dialogue was the goal.
To the question of whether there was a request for relocation, he did not immediately answer that it was a matter for Korea to discuss.
The reaction of the United States was reported by Nam Seung-mo, a correspondent from Washington.
<Reporter>
John Kirby, White House National Security Council Strategic Coordination and Communications Officer, answered a question about the US position on the controversy over the relocation of tactical nuclear weapons in South Korea.
[John Kirby / Strategic Communication Coordinator, National Security Council, White House: Our goal is the complete and verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
I believe there is still a diplomatic solution to denuclearization.]
The US State Department also reaffirmed the US's existing security promises instead of responding to the tactical nuclear redeployment, saying that the Korean issue should be asked to South Korea.
[Ned Price/US State Department Spokesperson
: President Biden has confirmed his (extended deterrence) commitment to South Korea to use all US defense capabilities, including nuclear and conventional weapons and missile defense capabilities.]
Earlier, US State Department Special Representative for North Korea Seong Kim said in a discussion last month that relocating tactical nuclear weapons was not the right answer based on his personal opinion and would cause repercussions beyond the Korean Peninsula.
At a meeting held at the UN headquarters in New York, North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations, Kim Seong, said the United States was responsible for the security instability on the Korean Peninsula and demanded that the provision of nuclear umbrellas and South Korea-US exercises be stopped.
[Kim Seong / North Korean Ambassador to the United Nations: The United States must take the lead in reducing nuclear weapons and refrain from providing a nuclear umbrella that shares nuclear weapons.] Although the
United States has repeatedly emphasized the principle of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula along with its defense commitments, North Korea has not stopped nuclear and missile provocations. There seems to be a limit to allaying my security concerns.
(Video coverage: Park Eun-ha, video editing: Kim Jong-mi)
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