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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea criticized a recent US-ROK agreement to bolster the deployment of US strategic assets in the region for escalating tension to the "brink of a nuclear war", state media KCNA said on Monday.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kisihida is coming to Seoul for talks with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, officials said Tuesday, in the first visit by a Japanese leader since 2018 as relations continue to thaw.

Trilateral cooperation between South Korea, the United States and Japan in the security realm is picking up momentum as the three nations team up against shared threats from North Koreas evolving nuclear programs and, furthermore, China.

Yet judging by the response from North Korea, it would be premature to expect real change in the state of play between the two Koreas.

President Yoon Suk Yeol said, Tuesday, the Washington Declaration, which he signed with U.S. President Joe Biden during last weeks summit, is “a nuclear-based paradigm upgrade” in the security alliance between the two countries, hailing it as being “more effective than NATOs nuclear planning group.”

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Tuesday called on China to "abide" by United Nations Security Council's sanctions against North Korea, as Seoul is left with "no choice"...

President Yoon Suk Yeol called on China to take steps to deal with North Koreas nuclear threats, in response to Beijings criticism of the Washington Declaration, a statement issued by Yoon and U.S. President Joe Biden agreeing to upgrade the bilateral security alliance to a nuclear-based extended deterrence. “If China wants to raise objections to and criticism directed at us for upgrading the security cooperation between Seoul and Washington to a nuclear-based extended deterrence, it should at...

The establishment of the NCG represents a timely and measured response to changing domestic situations in South Korea as well as the growing nuclear threat from North Korea.

Seoul also called on China to play its part in upholding peace in the region and bringing nuclear-armed Pyongyang to the negotiating table.

President Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol signed a bilateral nuclear agreement on April 26 that addressed allied nuclear proliferation and South Korean doubts of the viability of the American extended deterrence guarantee.