The United States and South Korea have been expanding their combined military exercises and increasing regional deployments of U.S.

Some say North Korea may try to wrest concessions from Washington, such as tying his release to the United States cutting back its military activities with South Korea. North Korea has used similar rhetoric before, but the statement underscored how much relations are strained now.Īnalysts say North Korea may wait weeks or even months to provide meaningful information about King to maximize leverage and add urgency to U.S. In between those launches, North Korea’s defense minister issued a veiled threat insisting the Kentucky’s docking in South Korea could be grounds for the North to use a nuclear weapon against it. North Korea reacted to its arrival in Busan by test-firing ballistic and cruise missiles in apparent demonstrations that it could make nuclear strikes against South Korea and deployed U.S. nuclear-armed submarine to come to South Korea since the 1980s. Last week, the USS Kentucky became the first U.S. The arrival of the USS Annapolis adds to the allies' show of force to counter North Korean nuclear threats. naval asset to the Korean Peninsula this month. submarine arrived at a port on Jeju Island in the second deployment of a major U.S. Harrison's comments came hours after South Korea's military said a nuclear-propelled U.S. King’s crossing came at a time of high tensions in the Korean Peninsula, where the pace of both North Korea’s weapons demonstrations and the United States’ combined military exercises have intensified in a tit-for-tat cycle.

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