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Pull out of US Defence Secretary Robert Gates and South Korea Defence Minister Kim Tae-young arriving at  joint news conference2. Wide of news conference3. Close-up of US officials 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Gates, US Defence...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Pull out of US Defence Secretary Robert Gates and South Korea Defence Minister Kim Tae-young arriving at  joint news conference\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close-up of US officials \u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Gates, US Defence Secretary:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We will stand together with the Republic of Korea and our other allies and partners toward achieving a complete and verifiable denuclearisation of North Korea.\" \u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close-up of reporter's computer screen \u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Kim Tae-young, South Korea Defence Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Both nations have agreed to develop plans for all possible scenarios and strengthen our cooperation so that North Korea's unstable situation does not have a negative affect on the Korean peninsula's stability and peace.\" \u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e9. South Korea military officials \u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Gates, US Defence Secretary:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I have made no specific requests during my visit here in terms of Afghanistan. It's entirely up to the government of the Republic of Korea what it chooses to do. In Afghanistan, there are, as I just indicated, a range of needs from helping to pay for the expansion and sustainment of the Afghan army and police.\" \u003cbr/\u003e11. Reporters \u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Gates, US Defence Secretary \u003cbr/\u003e\"Everybody has an interest in making sure that there are as few problems with this runoff election as possible, in terms of providing legitimacy for the winning candidate.\" \u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide of media \u003cbr/\u003e15. Zoom in to Gates and Kim shaking hands and leaving news conference\u003cbr/\u003e16. Gates arriving at the South Korean Defence Ministry, being greeted by Kim\u003cbr/\u003e17. Zoom in to Gates walking into building with Kim\u003cbr/\u003e18. Mid of Gates shaking hands with Kim during the annual Security Consultative Meeting (SCM)\u003cbr/\u003e19. Close of Gates, pan right to Kim \u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide of meeting\u003cbr/\u003e21. Close of Gates \u003cbr/\u003e22. Close of Kim speaking\u003cbr/\u003e23. Mid of meeting\u003cbr/\u003e24. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Gates, United States Defence Secretary: \u003cbr/\u003e\"North Korea continues to pose a threat to the Republic of Korea, to the region and to others. And as such, I want to reaffirm the unwavering commitment of the US to the alliance and to the defence of the Republic of Korea.\" \u003cbr/\u003e25. Mid of meeting\u003cbr/\u003e26. Close of Kim\u003cbr/\u003e27. Mid of South Korean Defence Ministry officials \u003cbr/\u003e28. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Gates, United States Defence Secretary:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The United States will continue to provide extended deterrence using the full range of military capabilities, including the nuclear umbrella, to ensure ROK's (Republic of Korea) security.\" \u003cbr/\u003e29. Wide pan right of meeting \u003cbr/\u003e30. Mid of Commander of US Forces in South Korea, General Walter Sharp, and US Ambassador to South Korea, Kathleen Stephens  \u003cbr/\u003e31. Wide of Gates and US officials walking into the National Cemetery to place wreath and burn incense \u003cbr/\u003e32. Mid pan right from wreath placed by Gates, to Gates and officials during prayer UPSOUND: music\u003cbr/\u003e33. Mid pan right of anti-US protest, by South Korean civil group People for Peace and Unification, in front of Defence Ministry \u003cbr/\u003e34. Close of woman holding placard with photos of Gates and Kim \u003cbr/\u003e35. Wide of Defence Ministry's gates, pan left to protesters\u003cbr/\u003eThe United States Defence Secretary on Thursday said that North Korea continued to pose a grave threat to international peace and pledged to protect South Korea with Washington's full military might, including its nuclear capabilities.\u003cbr/\u003eDefence Secretary Robert Gates and his South Korean counterpart, Kim Tae-young, said their two nations would never accept North Korea as a nuclear weapons state. \u003cbr/\u003eThey accused the regime of undermining global security with atomic and missile threats, and said recent overtures from Pyongyang did not diminish the threat.\u003cbr/\u003eDuring the annual Security Consultative Meeting (SCM) talks, Gates reaffirmed the United States' \"unwavering commitment\" to defending ally South Korea.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The United States will continue to provide extended deterrence using the full range of military capabilities, including the nuclear umbrella, to ensure ROK's (Republic of Korea) security,\" Gates said. \u003cbr/\u003eIn a joint statement, the top defence officials said that ballistic missile and nuclear weapons tests conducted in April and May \"clearly violate\" United Nations Security Council resolutions and international disarmament agreements.\u003cbr/\u003eNorth Korea sees Washington's nuclear deterrent as a key threat to its survival, and has long maintained that it needs its own atomic programme to defend itself against the US nuclear umbrella.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We will stand together with the Republic of Korea and our other allies and partners toward achieving a complete and verifiable denuclearisation of North Korea.\" Gates said at a joint news conference with Kim following the SCM talks with his SKorean counterpart.\u003cbr/\u003eKim said both nations were looking at \"all possible scenarios\" that may arise in North Korea if it continues to increase its nuclear and missile capabilities while engineering an apparent power succession. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Both nations have agreed to develop plans for all possible scenarios and strengthen our cooperation so that North Korea's unstable situation does not have a negative affect on the Korean peninsula's stability and peace,\" Kim said.\u003cbr/\u003eGates and Kim said they agreed to cooperate closely on implementing two UN Security Council resolutions that seek to stop North Korea from engaging in ballistic missile activity and in working toward bringing North Korea back to disarmament talks that involve Russia, Japan, China, US and the two Koreas.\u003cbr/\u003eThe strong stance from the top defence officials comes amid signs of possible softening by North Korea after months of tension over its nuclear and missile programmes.\u003cbr/\u003eNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Il said earlier this month that his country could rejoin the six-party nuclear talks, depending on the status of direct talks it hopes to hold with the US.\u003cbr/\u003eDuring Thursday's visit, Gates also placed a wreath and burnt incense at the National Cemetery in a mark of respect.\u003cbr/\u003eAs Gates held talks with Kim at the Defence Ministry, about twenty anti-US protesters gathered at the entrance, holding placards denouncing the meeting which touched on the war in Afghanistan.\u003cbr/\u003eThe protesters voiced fears that Gates may ask Seoul to redeploy military combats to help fight insurgents in Afghanistan.\u003cbr/\u003eSeoul pulled their combat troops from Afghanistan last year.\u003cbr/\u003eDuring the joint news conference Gates said that he had \"made no specific requests during my visit here in terms of Afghanistan.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's entirely up to the government of the Republic of Korea what it chooses to do.\"\u003cbr/\u003eGates said NATO officials were going to closely watch how Afghanistan prepared for upcoming runoff presidential elections to prevent fraud and other problems that plagued the nation's August voting.\u003cbr/\u003eThe November 7 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