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    Emil Lazarian
  • 3 years ago
    • Categories: 2023

US nuclear-armed submarine making port call in South Korea’s Busan for first time in decades

 16:25,

YEREVAN, 18 JULY, ARMENPRESS: For the first time in decades, a US Navy nuclear-armed submarine has arrived in the port of Busan, South Korea, Kurt Campbell, coordinator for the Indo-Pacific at the US National Security Council, told reporters at a briefing in Seoul․

He noted that the move was intended to demonstrate Washington’s commitment to agreements with Seoul regarding extended Korean deterrence.

Campbell participated in the first session of the Korea-US nuclear planning advisory group in Seoul. The parties discussed intelligence sharing on North Korea and the topic of nuclear deterrence.

The President of the United States Joe Biden and the President of Republic of Korea Yoon Suk Yeol, adopted the Washington Declaration in April, which listed a number of steps to upgrade extended deterrence. Within its framework, regular visits of American nuclear ballistic missile submarine, aircraft carriers to the Republic of Korea, as well as flights of American bomber aircrafts are planned.

On June 16, an American nuclear submarine armed with “Tomahawk” cruise missiles arrived at the port of Busan.

US and South Korean navies have conducted special operations training exercises.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS