North Korea: South Korea has thousand of nuclear warheads from the U.S.

North Korea argues, that in South Korea stationed 1 thousands of American nuclear warheads. This figure has led today from the Korean Central News Agency.

Official representative of the U.S. military command in Seoul, called the accusations “baseless” and said, that in South Korea there is no American nuclear weapons.

Tactical nuclear weapons of the U.S. had withdrawn from South Korea in 1991. But Washington continues to fulfill obligations under the nuclear deterrence of potential adversaries in Seoul. The American “nuclear umbrella” over South Korea is formed by the nuclear weapons in the U.S. and deployed in the Pacific, American submarines armed with ballistic missiles.

According to South Korean media on 16 June at a meeting of the Presidents of the United States and South Korea in Washington, will be signed the document in which the United States reiterated the commitment of “nuclear umbrella” over South Korea.