30 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has stressed the importance of a US “nuclear umbrella” for South Korea in the face of threats from Pyongyang.
“I think it’s important to understand that what we call extended deterrence (or nuclear umbrella), which means that NATO allies and also some partners, like South Korea, don’t have their own nuclear weapons but are covered by nuclear deterrence. provided by the United States,” he explained at an event in Seoul organized by the Chey Institute for Advanced Study.
In this sense, the head of the Atlantic Alliance has reiterated that the organization “will continue to be a nuclear alliance” as long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, ensuring that the world would be more dangerous if NATO allies get rid of them in the face of nuclear threats. from Russia, China and North Korea.
“So nuclear deterrence still has an extremely important task to fulfill,” he concluded, according to statements reported by the South Korean news agency Yonhap.
Stoltenberg arrived in South Korea this Sunday with the intention of strengthening the association between the Asian country and the Atlantic alliance in the face of China’s ascendancy as a regional power that is “rapidly expanding its nuclear capacity” or the “global threat” it represents. North Korea.
After that, Pyongyang has considered that Stoltenberg’s visit is a “prelude” to the war in the region, arguing that it can create a “new Cold War” by trying to strengthen relations with Seoul and Tokyo.
