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ELITE VOL.1, Issue 55, May 2023
ELITE
VOL.1, Issue 55, May 2023

Thus, tensions that were originally ports for the first time in four decades to

heightened between the parties, followed demonstrate the United States'
by a promise from Seoul and Washington commitment to expanded deterrence. This
to Pyongyang to confront a nuclear angered leader Kim Jong Un, who
response and the "end" of its current responded that his country's status as a
regime should it decide to use nuclear nuclear Power was "irreversible", and
weapons against them, the first threat called for the further development of
where Biden mentioned ending the regime weapons, including tactical nuclear
in North Korea. This threat was offset by weapons. In addition, the United States
clear criticism and threats from China to violated South Korea's airspace
the United States and South Korea and reconnaissance aircraft near the East
warnings of "confrontation" with North Coast. Leader Kim Jong Un's threats did
Korea, making the situation worse given not end verbally, but North Korea,
the conflict between China and the United despite the imposed sanctions, tested its
States over the Taiwan issue and the most powerful intercontinental ballistic
alliance between China and North Korea. missiles and tried to put its first military
surveillance satellites in orbit but failed
As part of these tensions between the because the missile "landed at sea"
United States and North Korea, joint according to Pyongyang. This was the first

military exercises were conducted through attempt of its kind, and North Korea even
a tripartite alliance between the United tested a submarine capable of launching a
States, South Korea and Japan in an effort nuclear attack that could "cause a large-
to address North Korea's threats. These scale radioactive tsunami" through an
exercises began on March 13, 2023, underwater explosion in March 2023 and
launching the largest joint military conducted an underwater strategic
exercises in five years, and despite North weapons system test from April 4 to 7,
Korea's threats to them, followed by 2023. As a result of the alliance of China
military exercises on April 4, 2023. Those and North Korea, the latter was able to
conducted on 25th of May 2023 were the use the China Sea to launch several cruise
largest ever joint live-fire exercises to missiles to circumvent United Nations
simulate a "large-scale attack" from North sanctions in July this year, the last of
Korea. Not only that, the White House which was the launch of a ballistic missile
announced on July 18 this year that an in the Sea of Japan on 24 July 2023.
American nuclear-armed submarine would

dock at South Korean

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