"The most appropriate way for ensuring peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula at present is to deter the US's highhanded and arbitrary practices from the position of strength and with enough exercise of power, rather than solving the problem with the gangster-like Americans in a 'friendly' manner," Kim said in a statement published by the Korean Central News Agency Monday.
US Can’t Offer South Korea Real Protection
"I don't think this scheme will go very far or lead to any results that would substantially increase South Korea’s security," Dr. Zhang Baohui, director of the Center for Asian Pacific Studies at Hong Kong’s Lingnan University, told Sputnik when asked to comment on the new consultative group’s meeting.
"Hence, Washington has tried to soothe Seoul’s concerns by initiating token gestures of greater nuclear protection by the Untied States. However, due to North Korea’s increasing nuclear abilities to strike North America, Washington will unlikely adopt drastic measures like promising unconditional nuclear protection of South Korea or basing US tactical nuclear weapons in South Korea," the scholar said.