South Korea, November 8th 2017 : South Korea has agreed to buy US weapons worth “billions of dollars” to guard against threats from nuclear-armed North Korea, US President Donald Trump said today.<\/p>\n
After a summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-In, Trump also said the US — the South’s key security guarantor — had agreed to remove a warhead weight limit on Seoul’s ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n
Trump arrived in Seoul on Tuesday for a two-day visit as part of his Asia tour amid high tensions over North Korea’s weapons drive.<\/p>\n
Trump said the South — a key Asian ally which hosts 28,500 US troops — would be buying a large amount of US weapons “whether it’s planes, whether it’s missiles, no matter what it is”.<\/p>\n
“South Korea will be ordering billions of dollars of that equipment, which for them makes a lot of sense and for us it means jobs, reducing our trade deficit with South Korea,” he said.<\/p>\n
Moon confirmed the planned purchases which he described as “essential”, saying Seoul had agreed to begin talks to buy US strategic assets to enhance Korea’s defence capabilities.<\/p>\n
Under the existing missile pact between the US and the South, Seoul has only been allowed to develop warheads as heavy as 500 kilograms for its ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n
The US instead offers the South a “nuclear umbrella” against potential attacks, but Seoul has sought to remove the limit in recent years amid the growing missile threat from the North.<\/p>\n
The allies had agreed in principle to do so in September following the North’s latest nuclear test, by far its most powerful to date.<\/p>\n
Moon, noting “ever-growing threats” from the North’s missiles and nuclear weapons, said Tuesday the two allies had reached a “final agreement” to remove the restriction.<\/p>\n
“We also reaffirmed our stance to put maximum pressure and sanctions on the North until it… comes foward for genuine negotiations,” he told reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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