Yoon Seok-yeol’s state visit to the U.S. US ‘reconciliation and gratitude’ with Japan ‘Non-use agreement’ on nuclear development

Yoon Seok-yeol’s state visit to the U.S. US ‘reconciliation and gratitude’ with Japan ‘Non-use agreement’ on nuclear development

Regarding President Yoon Seok-yeol’s state visit to the United States, a US official told Reuters on the 21st that it was a “gratitude for reconciliation with Japan, an American ally,” and that it included “confirmation that South Korea will not allow South Korea to develop nuclear weapons.”
Reuters reported that a senior US official said, “The summit, the second state visit under the Biden administration, reflected Biden’s appreciation for President Yoon’s strong leadership and reconciliation with Japan, another key US ally in Northeast Asia.” reported that day.

Another official told Reuters that South Korea would "welcome any additional steps it may be willing to take" in response to comments in support of Ukraine. said.
A high-ranking US official's anonymous remarks from Reuters on the same day said that South Korea requested "guarantees for Korea's nuclear development" for weapons support to Ukraine, and the US rejected this request and expressed it as "Korea's own calculation like other countries", indicating that the Yoon government's arms support for Ukraine It seems to have been concluded as impossible.

Regarding the Korea-US summit, another anonymous official said, “Many Indo-Pacific countries that could have made nuclear weapons have chosen it as one of the greatest achievements of the United States, who chose not to make nuclear weapons because of the protection of the so-called US nuclear umbrella.” "We need to take real steps to make it clear to everyone that few doubt our commitment to stand with South Korea despite provocations, Russian armed attacks and China's outspoken ambitions for nuclear buildup," he told Reuters.

Reuters said, “At a summit with South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol next week, US President Joe Biden announced that a senior US official would commit to ‘substantial’ action to emphasize the US commitment to deter North Korea’s nuclear attack on South Korea.” "We are working specifically and intensively with the Korean people to take the necessary steps to support public perception and the reality of our commitments," he said of the summit on the 26th.
The Associated Press said, "In Japan, G7 top-level diplomats jointly condemned North Korea's recent ballistic missile test and reaffirmed their commitment to the goal of North Korea's complete abandonment of nuclear weapons." prepared, and it seems that North Korea's nuclear program will be discussed again," it reported on the 21st.
The Associated Press continued, “North Korea’s Foreign Minister Choi Sun-hee said that if the G7 countries, including the United States, Japan, Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Italy and the European Union, show ‘all behavioral attempts’ to infringe on North Korea’s fundamental interests, North Korea will take an unspecified ‘strong response’. ’ It was announced in a statement on the 21st that North Korea’s position as a nuclear power “will remain an undeniable and harsh reality,” he said, saying it had no treaty obligations because it withdrew from the treaty 20 years ago.
North Korea joined the NPT in 1985, but withdrew from the treaty in 2003, citing US aggression.
A statement from the G7 foreign ministers' meeting stated that "North Korea will never have the status of a nuclear weapons state under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty."
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons states that five states move toward nuclear disarmament to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons beyond the five armed states, the United States, Russia, China, United Kingdom, and France, and that non-nuclear signatories engage in peaceful nuclear technology for energy production. Demand not to pursue nuclear weapons in exchange for promises of guaranteed access.

The Korea-US summit in May of last year specified the “common goal of complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” and President Yoon applied it to “denuclearization of North Korea,” and proceeded with a strategy to increase the power of the US Republican Party in South Korea for “nuclear armament.”
The joint statement from the Korea-US summit is <President Seok-Yeol Yoon and President Biden reaffirmed the common goal of complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and agreed to further strengthen cooperation between the two countries to achieve this>.