Is visiting the South Korea 22, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates promised to South Korea, the United States will mobilize, including nuclear umbrella to prevent the offensive capability of conventional weapons and missiles to South Korea, including a full range of military forces to provide “extended deterrence.”Gates that day with South Korean Defense Minister Kim Tae-jung co-chaired the first 41 plays South Korea-US Security Consultative Council. The two sides issued a joint statement after the talks stressed that the Korean Peninsula crisis, the United States will not only dispatch the local forces will be stationed overseas assignment in the world’s military forces, including missile defense systems, from the strategic level to enhance South Korea-US Joint defense capabilities to protect South Korea’s security.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak visited the United States in June of this year, the South Korea-US summit between the two countries in the “South Korea-US alliance future prospects,” the joint document by “extended deterrence” concept in the United States to provide a nuclear umbrella to South Korea next culture. The joint statement made clear the first time in text form extended deterrence of the specific means, namely mobilization, including the nuclear umbrella to prevent the offensive capability of conventional weapons and missiles, including a full range of military force.
South Korea-US talks, the two sides in the day once again stressed that would not accept North Korea’s possession of nuclear weapons. North Korea’s nuclear test and the recently launched short-range missile behavior not only violates the UN Security Council resolutions and the six-party talks joint document, but also in Northeast Asia as well as the international community, poses a serious threat to peace and security. Gates also said that the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is the top priority issues to be addressed. The United States will continue to support South Korea on the Korean Peninsula through dialogue and ease tensions and build relative to health and prosperity of the South Korea-North Korea relations efforts.
Gates also said the United States on the issue of assistance to Afghanistan to the South Korean government has not made any concrete proposals. The South Korean government when and on what level of support, will be entirely by the South Korean government to decide.
With regard to the transfer of wartime operational command to South Korea over the issue, Gates said that at present the work progress was satisfactory, I believe the agreement will be the date April 17, 2012 to conduct the transfer. He also said that, as allies, the United States will continue after the transfer of operational command of the Joint defense commitments.
