US President Joe Biden on Thursday declared that the United States will ‘respond accordingly’ if North Korea escalates its missile testing.
Following the two recent Ballistic missile testing by North Korean Forces, the US has condensed the exercise.
‘We are consulting with our partners and allies,’ Biden said at his first White House press conference. ‘And there will be responses if they choose to escalate. We will respond accordingly.’
Speaking to reporters Biden stated that he was ‘prepared for some form of diplomacy” with North Korea but it “has to be conditioned upon the end result of denuclearization.’
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North Korea fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea Thursday, in its first substantive provocation to Biden’s new administration.
Pyongyang is banned from developing any ballistic missiles under UN Security Council resolutions and is under multiple international sanctions over its weapons programs.
Biden said the North had violated UN resolutions by testing “those particular missiles.”
The new US president also replied ‘yes‘ when asked if North Korea was the top foreign policy issue he was watching.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK