(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) South Korea and the United States will hold a senior-level defense meeting to discuss ways to counter threats posed by North Korea's nuclear program and weapons of mass destruction, Seoul's defense ministry said Tuesday.
The Extended Deterrence Policy Committee will hold its third table-top exercise for two days from Tuesday at the US Pacific Command in Hawaii to discuss how to apply a bilateral strategy for tailored deterrence against North Korean weapons program, according to South Korea's (Yonhap) News Agency.
The move comes after defense ministers of the allies last year signed the tailored deterrence strategy to strengthen the American nuclear umbrella on the Korean Peninsula in light of Pyongyang's third nuclear test in February 201
South Korea's Deputy Defense Minister Ryu Se-seung will meet with his American counterparts, including Elaine Bunn, deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear and missile defense policy, and David Helvey, deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia, to enhance interoperability, the ministry sai
"At this exercise, the allies will discuss the tailored deterrence strategy and how to apply extended deterrence policy to handle threat posed by North Korea's nuclear program and weapons of mass destruction," the ministry said in a statement. During the bilateral summit in November, US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel pledged to support deterrence capabilities with the full range of its military capabilities, including its nuclear umbrella and conventional strike missiles. South Korea's nuclear program was brought to a halt in 1992 when it signed a denuclearization treaty. The US, which stations 28,500 troops in the country, provides a nuclear umbrella to deter North Korean nuclear threat under a bilateral security alliance
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