iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The United States says that North Korea’s push for nuclear weapons is a threat to the region.
At Tuesday’s Defense Department briefing, Admiral Samuel Locklear, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, said, “The proliferation of activities that North Korea — their desire for nuclear missiles and nuclear capabilities — as we’ve said over and over again, are highly threatening to this global security environment.”
Locklear said that keeping North Korea in check is important.
“That denuclearization of North Korea is a central part of the way ahead in that — this part of the world,” he added.
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