SEOUL: South Korea declined to comment on Wednesday on revelations that the United States (US) talked it down from launching a retaliatory air strike on North Korea in 2010.

The claims were made in the newly published memoir of former US defense secretary Robert Gates, in which he also describes former South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun as “probably a little bit crazy.”

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