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A threat to North Korea? What the Washington Declaration means

US President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol shake hands at the conclusion of a joint news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC [Kevin Lamarque/Reuters]

If North Korea uses its nuclear weapons against the United States or its ally South Korea, it would be “the end” of Kim Jong Un’s regime, Seoul and Washington announced this week.

The stern threat comes as South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol is on a six-day state visit to the US, where he and his counterpart Joe Biden discussed ramping up the US security shield for South Korea in the face of the nuclear-armed North’s increased missile tests.

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