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USFK Commander Abrams told the US Congress that “North Korea continues to develop nuclear weapons and Marsile”.
There was also an announcement that the U.S. Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense were visiting Korea at the same time.
This is Kim Soo-hyung, correspondent from Washington.
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USFK Commander Abrams attended a parliamentary hearing on video and testified that North Korea continues to develop nuclear weapons and that North Korea's threat to the international security environment continues.
[Avrums/USFK Commander: North Korea continues to develop nuclear weapons, missile systems, and cyber capabilities, as well as traditional and emerging asymmetric military technology.]
Secretary of State Tony Blincoln and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin went side by side to South Korea to find North Korea issues It has been announced that it will discuss diplomatic and defense issues, including.
It has been four and a half years since both the State and Defense Ministers visited at the same time, but the meeting was scheduled for two days starting on the 17th.
It was also decided to hold a 2+2 conference where the Korean and US ministers attended at the same time.
The simultaneous visits by the US State and Defense Ministers are held during the ROK-US joint training period, which North Korea considers most sensitive, and attention is focused on what messages will come out.
The UN Special Rapporteur on North Korean human rights has urged the UN Security Council to refer North Korea's grave human rights violations to the International Criminal Court.
[Thomas Ohea Quintana/UN Rapporteur for North Korean Human Rights: It is time for the
UN Security Council
to decide to send the situation of human rights violations in North Korea to the International Criminal Court.]
He criticized him for being held accountable for doing nothing.