People watch a TV news report about North Korea’s hydrogen bomb test at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea on September 3, 2017. (Han Jong-Chan/Yonhap/via REUTERS)
Washington Post: A South Korean delegation asks Washington for nuclear weapons
The heated debate in South Korea over redeploying U.S. nuclear weapons on its territory has now reached Washington. A senior delegation of South Korean lawmakers is in town making the case to the Trump administration and Congress that such a move is needed to confront North Korea’s growing nuclear capability and place more pressure on China.
“We are here to ask for redeployment of tactical nuclear warheads in South Korea,” Lee Cheol Woo, the head of the intelligence committee of South Korea’s National Assembly, told me Thursday morning.
Lee is heading a delegation of members of the Liberty Korea Party, the opposition to President Moon Jae-in’s Democratic Party. He is also the chairman of the assembly’s special committee for nuclear crisis response.
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WNU Editor: This South Korean delegation is made up of lawmakers from the opposition party who are clearly distancing themselves from the South Korean President who voiced the exact opposite position earlier this morning .... South Korean President Does Not Want Nuclear Weapons Because It May Spur A Nuclear Arms Race. But while they may be the opposition party, they are reflecting a change in public sentiment on nuclear weapons in South Korea .... More than ever, South Koreans want their own nuclear weapons ( Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post).
2 comments:
Hell whith it
Awesome!
It also reminds me of a sci-fi novel of the late 80s or early 90s, where scientists urged the governments of the world to launch an interstellar colony ship, because of nuclear war. All the regional powers like Pakistan had them. They calculated the odds of false positives for missile launches and concluded that nuclear annihilation was inevitable.
The ship was launched. The ship had a resident AI. Three months into the trip the would be colonists decided to sling shot around Jupiter and return home. The AI would not let them and there was a revolt. The AI 'let' the rebels win. When the rebels got to aft steerage, they took a look through the rearward telescope.
Earth was no longer blue.
Who would think a 'dime' novel that was an 'also ran' would be close to the truth?
After all every pot bellied pig of a dictator should have nukes.
www.nbcnews.com/science/vlad-impaler-real-dracula-was-absolutely-vicious-8C11505315
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