The Guardian: South Korean media call for country to build its own nuclear weapons
Experts and commentators say a deterrent independent of the US is needed in face of uncertain support from Donald Trump
South Korea should take a page out of the work of Shakespeare in dealing with North Korea and fight “fire with fire”, experts and media commentators have said in response to the North’s latest nuclear test.
Many in the South are calling for the country to develop its own nuclear weapons as a deterrent independent of the US given uncertain support from Donald Trump.
South Korea hosts about 30,000 US troops and falls under the US nuclear umbrella, but in return is banned from building its own nuclear weapons under a 1974 agreement with Washington.
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WNU Editor: Not going to happen. Developing and producing nuclear weapons will break numerous treaties that South Korea has signed, and it will expose them to international sanctions. What I expect instead is something like this .... South Korea’s defense minister suggests bringing back tactical U.S. nuclear weapons (Washington Post).
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"Not going to happen. Developing and producing nuclear weapons will break numerous treaties that South Korea has signed, and it will expose them to international sanctions."
LOL, I love ya man but it's already been proven that sanctions won't stop a country from gaining nukes, if they really want them. All you have to do is look a little to the north.
I do agree with the second part of your statement though, that the most likely outcome will be the US deploying tactical nukes to SK.
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I couldn't have put this any better myself. Besides that South Korea is simply to important a country to sanction economically in addition to sanctiins being plain ineffective.
The US dollar is still the world reserve currecncy at least for now and South Korea is supposedly a US ally. As such, the US needs to make it abundantly clear that if South Korea wants an indigenous nuclear arsenal it will have it, the US will help where and when possibly, and anyone who attempts to theart this will face reprisals from America. In fact, the opponents of an indigenous South Korean nuclear arsenal are the ones who should face International sanctions not South Korea.
Assuning South Korea's policy is reality based they have two basic options. 1.)Build their own indigenous nuclear arsenal and have a useful deterrent against North Korea or 2.)yield to International sanctions. If option 2 is chosen, the sanctions likely can't be effective as South Korea is simply to big and important to simply cut off. Dven if they could be effective, the options are build the arsenal, suffer under sanctions, and have a fighting chance against North Korea or yield to such International sanctiins, don't build the arsenal, and assuredly die at the hands of North Korea or worse be enslaved by them.
The choice seems a no brainer any way it is analyzed assuming policies are reality based. If they are not, perhaps South Korea wishes to continue jerking America's chsin as it has been for 60+ years.
Deploying US tactical nukes isn't a viable option. The US arsenal along with the rest of the US military is spread to thin and is needed elsewhere. To do so only further undermines US national security. Furthermore the US arsenal is aging and there are serious doubts about the competence of US oersonnel as well as the reliability of US leaders.
Bottom line: South Korea needs its own indigenous nuclear arsenal and has for a long time. I've recognized this since 1995. I'm glad some are finally catching on.
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