“The strengthening of the nuclear deterrent strategy between South Korea, the United States and Japan, as well as military actions such as the landing of a ballistic missile submarine (in South Korea) pose a very great burden and threat to North Korea,” Park said. “With North Korea having limited ability to take these steps on its own, it will be important (for Kim) to emphasize working with Moscow and Beijing for a joint response.”
For South Koreans, the most important outcome of the 1953 armistice was the signing of the U.S.-South Korea Mutual Defense Treaty, which was primarily aimed at allaying South Korea’s security concerns about the armistice and continues to form the basis of the two countries’ agreement military alliance.
In the face of the growing nuclear threat, Yoon is currently asking for stronger assurances from the US that it will quickly and decisively use its nuclear weapons to defend South Korea in the event of a North Korean nuclear attack.
Thousands of people are expected to attend a ceasefire commemoration ceremony in the South Korean port city of Busan on Thursday (27 July), a burial site honoring UN soldiers who died in the war.
“Despite the many provocations, challenges, misunderstandings and even deaths since the signing of the ceasefire agreement, the agreement has generally been in place for 70 years,” Andrew Harrison, a British lieutenant general who served as deputy commander at the United Nations Command, said in a press conference on Monday (24/07).
