Nuclear weapons elimination, China refuses to join talks with the US and Russia
The US has 3,700 and Russia has more than 4,300 warheads
China has categorically refused to sit down with the US and Russia, calling the trilateral nuclear talks “unrealistic”.
According to the news agency, US President Donald Trump had said that he wanted China to also join the talks on the elimination of nuclear weapons, but Beijing rejected this proposal.
A spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said that the US and Russia own the world’s largest nuclear weapons and they have the responsibility to reduce them. China keeps its nuclear power at a minimum level only for national security and is not part of any race.
On the other hand, North Korea has reacted strongly to the statement made by South Korean President Lee Jae-myung in the US and called him a “hypocrite”. North Korea says it will never give up its nuclear weapons, saying they are its “state honor and dignity.”
The United States and Russia hold about 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons, with the United States having 3,700 and Russia more than 4,300 warheads, according to a report by the Stockholm Institute. China has about 500 nuclear weapons.
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