Amid North Korea's threats, Joe Biden contradicts South Korean President on nuclear drills with USA

Amid rising tension on the Korean peninsula, US President Joe Biden reportedly contradicted his South Korea counterpart.

After Yoon Suk-yeol said that Seoul and Washington are discussing possible military exercises using American nuclear assets, Joe Biden on 2 January 2023 denied the claim.

"The nuclear weapons belong to the United States, but planning, information sharing, exercises and training should be jointly conducted by South Korea and the United States," Yoon told The Chosun Ilbo newspaper in an interview.

The comments came amid a flurry of missile tests by North Korea and incursions by its drones into South Korean airspace. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called South Korea an "undoubted enemy".

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