U.S. President Joe Biden & South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol agree to strengthen South Korea's defences and regularly deploy U.S. strategic assets
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- U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol have agreed to strengthen South Korea's defences and regularly deploy U.S. strategic assets.
- Both the leaders held a summit last week, during which Biden pledged to give Seoul more insight into its nuclear planning over any conflict with North Korea as anxiety grows over Pyongyang's weapons programmes and the American nuclear umbrella. As part of the efforts, a U.S. Navy nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine will visit South Korea for the first time since the 1980s.
- North Korea today criticised the U.S-South Korea agreement to bolster the deployment of American strategic assets in the region. State media KCNA termed the agreement as the most hostile and aggressive action against North Korea.
- Turkish forces kill suspected leader of Islamic State Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi in Syria
- Turkish forces have killed the suspected leader of Islamic State (IS) Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi in Syria. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that Qurayshi is believed to have taken over the group after his predecessor died in a raid in February. Mr Erdogan told broadcaster TRT Turk the IS leader was neutralised in a Turkish MIT intelligence agency operation on Saturday. Mr. Erdogan said, we will continue our struggle with terrorist organisations without any discrimination.
- IS has so far made no comment on the reported operation.
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Published date : 01 May 2023 05:13PM