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grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Mon Mar 13 23:29:31 PDT 2023


The human desire to pursue eradication of
themselves should not be underestimated...


Mayor Of Seoul Calls For South Korea To Develop Nuclear Weapons

Authored by Charles Kennedy

South Korea should develop and build nuclear weapons as a means to
defend itself from the growing nuclear threat from North Korea, the
mayor of Seoul, Oh Se-hoon, said in an exclusive interview with
Reuters published on Monday.

South Korea doesn’t have a domestic nuclear weapons program, but the
recent tensions over increased threats from North Korea have
intensified calls from some politicians in South Korea that the south
needs to be able to defend itself.

    “North Korea has nearly succeeded in miniaturising and lightening
tactical nuclear weapons and secured at least dozens of warheads,” Oh
told Reuters in an exclusive interview.

    “We've come to a point where it is difficult to convince people
with the logic that we should refrain from developing nuclear weapons
and stick to the cause of denuclearisation.”

Oh and other members of South Korea’s ruling conservative People Power
Party have been advocating for a domestic nuclear arsenal in the
increasingly heated debate over whether South Korea should have
nuclear weapons.

According to the most recent opinion polls among South Koreans, a
majority of them support the development of nuclear weapons in the
country.

    “Taken together, the data suggests that the support for a domestic
nuclear weapons program is robust, long-standing, and unlikely to
dissipate,” Karl Friedhoff, the Marshall M. Bouton Fellow for Asia
Studies at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, wrote last month.

Meanwhile, North Korea said on Monday that it would “mercilessly
punish” the United States, just ahead of the largest U.S.-South Korea
military drills in years. North Korea has also launched two cruise
missiles from a submarine.

South Korea’s Joint Chief of Staff on Monday confirmed it had detected
a launch from North Korea, adding that the “detailed specifications
are being analyzed precisely by the South Korean and US intelligence
authorities,” per the statement cited by Bloomberg.


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