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'Gravest consequences' if N. Korea attacks
South
Associated
Press | October 22 2004
WASHINGTON — The United States promised
South Korea today any North Korean use of weapons of mass destruction after
a planned U.S. troop pullout from the South "would have the gravest
consequences."
The pledge was included in a joint statement issued after
a regular round of security talks at the Pentagon involving top U.S. and
South Korean military leaders.
In the statement, South Korean Defence Minister Yoon Kwang
Ung and U.S. Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld said the two sides discussed
at length the plan to withdraw from South Korea 12,500 U.S. troops.
The United States has kept tens of thousands of troops
in South Korea since the Korean War ended in 1953 in a ceasefire. The total
was 37,000 until recently, when 3,600 troops were sent to fight in Iraq.
The Pentagon is scheduled to complete the withdrawal of 12,500 by 2008.
The joint statement said Rumsfeld "acknowledged the
concerns" of some in Korea that the troop withdrawal would weaken U.S.-South
Korean defences against a potential attack by the North.
"They reaffirmed that any North Korean use of weapons
of mass destruction would have the gravest consequences," the statement
said without elaborating.
The U.S. government believes North Korea has at least one
nuclear device and large amounts of chemical weapons.
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