Kamala Harris South Korea Trip The move is likely to spark an angry response from North Korea.
US Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone on a trip to South Korea latterly this week, the White House said Tuesday.
Harris, who's presently in Tokyo to attend the state burial of assassinated former Japanese high minister Shinzo Abe, will go to the DMZ on Thursday, a White House functionary said.
The move is likely to spark an angry response from North Korea, which denounced US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the" worst destroyer of transnational peace" when she visited the DMZ in August.
On Monday, Pyongyang advised that South Korea and the United States risked driving war after the abettors launched their first concerted nonmilitary exercise near the promontory five times.
Harris's visit to the DMZ will" emphasize. the United States' commitment to stand beneath( South Korea) in the face of any pitfalls posed by" North Korea, the US functionary said.
Harris will" reflect on the participated immolation" of US and Korean dogfaces killed in the Korean War, which ended with a ceasefire that resolve the promontory nearly 70 times ago in 1953, the functionary said.
Harris arrived in Japan on Monday and met Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ahead of Abe's burial on Tuesday, which will be attended by hundreds of foreign dignitaries.
South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck soo also held addresses with Harris in Tokyo on Tuesday and said the DMZ visit would offer" veritably emblematic demonstrations of your strong commitments to the security and peace to the Korean Peninsula".
North Korea has conducted a record-breaking blitz of munitions tests this time, including firing a multinational ballistic bullet at the full range for the first time since 2017.
Washington and Seoul officers have constantly advised that North Korea is preparing to carry out what would be its seventh nuclear test-- a move that the United States advised would provoke a" nippy and forceful" response.
South Korea's President Yoon Suk- yeol, who took office in May, has pledged to beef up common military drills with the United States after times of failed tactfulness with North Korea under his precursor.
On Monday, South Korea's cortege said the common nonmilitary exercise" was prepared to demonstrate the strong will of the South Korea- US alliance to respond to North Korean provocations".