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A6 WORLD NEWS
Wednesday 19 July 2023

U.S. deploys nuclear-armed submarine to South Korea

By HYUNG-JIN KIM new urgency after it threat-
Associated Press ened to use nuclear weap-
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — ons in conflicts with its rivals
The United States deployed and conducted about 100
a nuclear-armed subma- missile tests since the start
rine to South Korea on of last year. Last week,
Tuesday for the first time in North Korea conducted
four decades, as the allies a second test of a more
warned North Korea that mobile and powerful in-
any use of the North’s nu- tercontinental ballistic mis-
clear weapons in combat sile designed to strike the
would result in the end of its mainland United States. Af-
regime. ter observing that launch,
Periodic visits by U.S. nucle- North Korean leader Kim
ar ballistic missile-capable Jong Un vowed to further
submarines to South Korea strengthen his country’s nu-
were one of several agree- clear combat capabilities.
ments reached by the two Also on Tuesday, South Ko-
countries’ presidents in rean and U.S. officials held
April in response to North the inaugural meeting of
Korea’s expanding nuclear the Nuclear Consultative
threat. They also agreed to Group in Seoul to discuss
establish a bilateral Nucle- ways to strengthen deter-
ar Consultative Group and Protesters wearing masks of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, second from left, U.S. President rence against North Ko-
expand military exercises. Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, second from right, attend a rally against a rea’s nuclear threats.
The USS Kentucky, an Ohio- meeting of Nuclear Consultative Group between South Korea and the United States in front of the “Any nuclear attack by
class submarine, arrived at presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. North Korea against the
the South Korean port of Associated Press United States or its allies is
Busan on Tuesday after- “extended deterrence” posture against North Ko- Scientists. It was a period unacceptable and will re-
noon, South Korea’s De- commitment, a pledge by rea.” when the U.S. had hun- sult in the end of that re-
fense Ministry said. It is the the U.S. to use its full military During the Cold War in the dreds of nuclear warheads gime,” the two countries
first visit by a U.S. nuclear- capabilities, including nu- late 1970s, U.S. nuclear- located in South Korea. But said in a joint statement af-
armed submarine to South clear weapons, to protect armed ballistic missile sub- in 1991, the United States ter the meeting.
Korea since the 1980s, it its allies, the ministry said in marines made frequent withdrew all of its nuclear President Joe Biden issued
said. a statement. visits to South Korea, some- weapons from the Korean a similar warning after his
Defense Minister Lee Jong- He said the submarine’s times two or three times per Peninsula. summit in Washington with
Sup called the submarine’s visit “shows the allies’ over- month, according to the North Korea’s nuclear am- South Korean President
visit a demonstration of U.S. whelming capability and Federation of American bitions have taken on a Yoon Suk Yeol in April.q
resolve in implementing its

Thousands died in the Philippines’

‘war on drugs’

By MIKE CORDER the investigation to Manila erably higher and should
Associated Press was “not warranted.” At include many unsolved kill-
THE HAGUE, Netherlands the time, judges ruled that ings by motorcycle-riding
(AP) — Appeals judges at the domestic proceedings gunmen who may have
the International Criminal did not amount to “tangi- been deployed by police.
Court ruled Tuesday that ble, concrete and progres- Former Philippine President
an investigation into the sive investigative steps in a Rodrigo Duterte has de-
Philippines’ deadly “war on way that would sufficiently fended the crackdown as
drugs” can resume, reject- mirror the court’s investiga- “lawfully directed against
ing Manila’s objections to tion.” drug lords and pushers In this file photo released by the Malacanang Presidential
the case going ahead at At a hearing Tuesday, Pre- who have for many years Photographers Division, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte
the global court. siding Judge Marc Perrin destroyed the present talks with members of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the
The court’s investigation de Brichambaut said the generation, especially the Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Malacanang Presidential
was suspended in late 2021 five-judge appeals pan- youth.” Palace in Manila, Philippines, on May 31, 2021.
after the Philippines said it el, in a majority decision, Duterte withdrew the Phil- Associated Press
was already probing the agreed and rejected the ippines from The Hague- committed when the coun- stance but rejects the wish-
same allegations and ar- Philippines’ appeal. based court in 2019 in a try was still a member state es of human rights activists.
gued that the ICC a court More than 6,000 suspects, move rights activists said of the court. “The ICC appeals chamber
of last resort therefore most of them people who was an attempt to evade The current Philippine presi- decision rejects Philippine
didn’t have jurisdiction. lived in poverty, have been accountability and prevent dent, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., government claims that the
The Philippines launched killed in the crackdown on an international probe into said last year that Manila ICC should not investigate
its appeal after judges in drug crime, according to the killings in his campaign has no plan to rejoin the in the country,” said Bryony
January agreed with the government pronounce- against illegal drugs. How- ICC, a decision that sup- Lau, deputy Asia director
court’s chief prosecutor, ments. Human rights groups ever, the ICC still has juris- ported his predecessor’s at Human Rights Watch.q
Karim Khan, that deferring say the death toll is consid- diction over alleged crimes