A US nuclear submarine has arrived in South Korea after insistent missile launches by Kim Jong-un’s regime. (Photo: U.S. Seventh Fleet.

A US nuclear submarine arrived at South Korea for a scheduled visit, the Navy announced UNITED STATESafter the tensions recorded last week with the regime of North Korea.

He USS SpringfieldThe 6,000 ton Los Angeles class is part of a series of nuclear attack submarines for the United States Army and docked on the 23rd at the naval base in the South Korean port city of Busan, as the U.S. Seventh Fleet reported on its social media over the weekend.

this submarine is normally deployed to Guam and regularly conducts maritime security operations and “supports national security interests”, according to Washington.

The U.S. Seventh Fleet Pacific released photos of the ship with the South Korean flag waving next to the U.S. flag, along with the South Korean Navy welcoming the ship.

The Los Angeles-class 6,000-ton USS Springfield is one of a series of US Army nuclear-powered attack submarines. (Photo: U.S. 7th Fleet)
The Los Angeles-class 6,000-ton USS Springfield is one of a series of US Army nuclear-powered attack submarines. (Photo: U.S. 7th Fleet)

The sub’s visit to the South could be intended as a warning to North Korea, after Pyongyang fired three missiles, including an intercontinental, a few days ago and threatened to give an ‘unprecedented’ response to a grand maneuver that Seoul and Washington are due to unfold in March.

North Korea also launched on February 20, two days after firing an intercontinental missile, two short-range shells to the Sea of ​​Japan in apparent response to aerial maneuvers carried out by Seoul and Washington the day before.

The launches came a day after South Korea and the United States conducted aerial exercises involving two American B-1 strategic bombers.

The joint action came in response to North Korea’s Saturday launch of a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the second with the longest potential range in its arsenal, which traveled more than 900 kilometers before detonating. touch the waters of the Special Economic Zone. (SEZ) of Japan.

Tension is rising on the Korean Peninsula.
Tension is rising on the Korean Peninsula.

Faced with this, the European Union (EU) has “strongly” condemned the movements which it described as “illegal” and “reckless” by North Korea.

The EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, urged the international community to “react in a united and firm manner before North Korea’s actions further undermine the international non-proliferation architecture and escalate military tensions in the region.”

Insisted that Pyongyang “immediately” comply with UN Security Council resolutions and abandon all existing nuclear weapons, other weapons of mass destruction, ballistic missile programs and nuclear programs, “completely, verifiable and irreversible”, and cease all related activities.

“The EU urges all UN Member States to join it in calling on North Korea to immediately cease all missile launches and resume dialogue with relevant parties,” he added.

The peninsula is experiencing a historic level of tension after 2022 during which Pyonyang carried out a record number of weapons tests (about fifty) and during which the allies again carried out major maneuvers and temporarily deployed strategic means Americans on the South Korean peninsula.

(With information from EFE)

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