the washington declaration aimed at deterring an attack on seoul. the bbc s seoul correspondent jean mackenzie explained what this agreement involves. so this deal is the us stepping up its commitment to use nuclear weapons to defend south korea from north korea. you know, the us is responsible for south korea s defence and are always up implied it would use nuclear weapons if necessary but recently people here in seoul have questioned that commitment and they needed part of its submarines, armed with nuclear weapons to the peninsular. it will be stationed here continually but it will come periodically. they will form the joint nuclear planning group and this allows south korea to be more involved in understanding how and when the us would use its nuclear weapons. politicians here essentially have been kept in the dark with little understanding of what would actually trigger the us president to trigger the nuclear button on its behalf, but in return for these us commitmen
so with the conservatives, it s all about labour. it s all about not what a conservative term in office would mean, but what a labour term in office, especially with a supermajority that phrase that has become part of the political lexicon in the last few weeks would mean. that s what rishi sunak s been talking about today. that s what rishi sunak is going to be talking about until midnight wednesday slash thursday labour. it s also about what labour would mean, but they have a much more direct way of talking about it. they use one word change, but the slight shift between the start of the campaign when they were using that one word, change, and now is that they say if you want it, you ve got to vote for it. and they keep repeating that and expect to hear that again and again and again until wednesday night, thursday morning. and the reason they do that is because there s just this slight twinge of concern in the labour campaign that the polling landscape means that s
rather strongly. there was a statement while he was in washington on taiwan. the chinese government has demolished the south korean government over there so they are also angry with him because he really shows no interest in negotiating. he offered a plan for negotiation which was immediately rejected by the north and you seen the washington conference that there were no new initiatives on the diplomatic side so the chinese think he is with the opponent washington at this point. opponent washington at this oint. . , opponent washington at this oint. ., , ., opponent washington at this oint. ., , ., ., ~ point. and really do not like the government point. and really do not like the government and - point. and really do not like the government and south. point. and really do not like - the government and south korea at this the government and south korea at this time. do the government and south korea at this time- at this time. do you think that the chinese at this time. do y
stance on the war in ukraine? i think that there is an opening here think that there is an opening here that think that there is an opening here that zelensky sees in 20 with here that zelensky sees in 20 with the here that zelensky sees in 20 with the chinese to a better position with the chinese to a better position. i don t think they have position. i don t think they have moved yet. they continue even have moved yet. they continue even in have moved yet. they continue even in the have moved yet. they continue even in the coal with zelensky not to even in the coal with zelensky not to call even in the coal with zelensky not to call it an invasion. they not to call it an invasion. they continue to have very warm ties with they continue to have very warm ties with moscow. but zelensky me think ties with moscow. but zelensky me think that there is at least a measure of opportunity here and i a measure of opportunity here and i think is very smart to take and i