Yoon Seok-yeol ‘overwhelming power’ US ‘dialogue diplomacy’ Russia ‘regional instability’ China ‘camp confrontation’
President Seok-Yeol Yun of the U.S. announced 'peace through overwhelming power', and the US State Department spoke of 'dialogue and diplomacy towards denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula', the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs of 'regional instability', and the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs of 'camp confrontation'. revealed
President Yoon broadcast the cabinet meeting openly and live on the 2nd and said, "We will build strong security so that future generations can safely nurture their dreams with peace based on overwhelming power, not fake peace that relies on the goodwill of the other party." In the process of sharing information on the operation of nuclear assets, joint planning, and joint execution, it is important to materialize the Washington Declaration well, and to fill in its contents well."
In a regular briefing on the 1st, U.S. State Department senior deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel criticized North Korea for the’Washington Declaration’ and responded to a question about the announcement of’continuation of nuclear force reinforcement’, saying, “As the Washington Declaration very clearly stated, President Biden and President Yoon “We have a common goal of complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” he said.
Regarding the Washington Declaration in a statement on the 28th, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, “A nuclear agreement between the United States and South Korea will further destabilize the regional and international order.” "We urge the United States and its allies to cease escalating tensions and abandon actions that undermine global security," he said.
In a commentary on the 27th, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs mentioned the strengthened deployment of US strategic assets to the Korean Peninsula in the Washington Declaration, and said, "The US method, full of Cold War ideas, incites camp confrontation, destroys the nuclear non-proliferation system, and aims at denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula." It runs counter to that,” he criticized.
"With the Washington Declaration, the ROK-US security alliance has been upgraded to a new nuclear-based paradigm," President Yoon said in a live broadcast that day.
President Yoon continued, "Through this summit, the ROK-US alliance has established five pillars on top of the 'value alliance': security alliance, industrial alliance, science and technology alliance, cultural alliance, and information alliance."
Prime Minister Han Deok-soo said on the 1st, "At the summit meeting between the two countries, the leaders of the two countries confirmed their unwavering commitment to cooperation for the denuclearization of North Korea, such as agreeing on concrete measures to strengthen extended deterrence against North Korea." In a meeting with the leading legislators, he spoke of an agreement on the denuclearization of North Korea.
In the above commentary, Deputy Spokesperson Patel of the State Department said, “We have a shared goal of complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” revealing the “agreement on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”