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General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: DemolitionMan on October 23, 2017, 05:21:10 am

Title: Calls to Bring U.S. Nuclear Weapons Back to South Korea Are Getting Louder
Post by: DemolitionMan on October 23, 2017, 05:21:10 am

Joseph Hincks
Oct 18, 2017

An expert at a leading Seoul-based think tank says South Korea should advance its capacity to make pre-emptive strikes, adding to opposition party calls to bring nuclear weapons back to check the North's belligerence.
South Korea “needs to actively pursue ... various pre-emptive strike capabilities,” Choi Kang, vice president of research at the independent think-tank Asan Institute for Policy Studies said Thursday, the Korea Herald reports.

http://time.com/4988994/south-korea-nuclear-weapons/

Title: Re: Calls to Bring U.S. Nuclear Weapons Back to South Korea Are Getting Louder
Post by: Fishrrman on October 24, 2017, 12:26:10 am

I'm wonderin' if some might already be there....?

Title: Re: Calls to Bring U.S. Nuclear Weapons Back to South Korea Are Getting Louder
Post by: DemolitionMan on October 24, 2017, 03:27:05 am

Quote from: Fishrrman on October 24, 2017, 12:26:10 am

I'm wonderin' if some might already be there....?

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/can-south-korea-build-nuclear-bomb-6-months-22437

Title: Re: Calls to Bring U.S. Nuclear Weapons Back to South Korea Are Getting Louder
Post by: Mom MD on October 24, 2017, 03:49:11 am

Did they ever leave?  But even more scary that N Korea nucs is a story I saw today raising the possibility of a biologic attack including smallpox. That would be far more devastating that any nuc...and much harder to defend against.

Title: Re: Calls to Bring U.S. Nuclear Weapons Back to South Korea Are Getting Louder
Post by: DemolitionMan on October 24, 2017, 08:50:48 am

Quote from: Mom MD on October 24, 2017, 03:49:11 am

Did they ever leave?  But even more scary that N Korea nucs is a story I saw today raising the possibility of a biologic attack including smallpox. That would be far more devastating that any nuc...and much harder to defend against.

They left the ROK in 1991.