Top South Korean lawmaker calls for nuclear arms

[WhiteTara]

Source: yahoo news

A top ruling party official called on Monday for South Korea to develop its own nuclear deterrent to combat the growing nuclear and missile threat from North Korea.

Support for a nuclear-armed South Korea is a minority voice in the country, but one that grows louder after every nuclear test by the North.

US tactical nuclear weapons were withdrawn from South Korea in late 1991, though the country remains under the protection of the US nuclear umbrella.

In the wake of North Korea's fourth nuclear test last month, Won Yoo-Cheol, the ruling Saenuri Party's floor leader, said it was time for the weapons to be re-deployed or for South Korea to get its own.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/top-south-korean-lawmaker-calls-nuclear-arms-052659990.html

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Upping the ante

[SoLeftIAmRight]

1. That will help the situation!

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[Igel]

2. "Calling," more like it. n/t

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

3. Just like buying another gun to stop gun deaths. n/t

[WhiteTara]

4. +1

[davidpdx]

5. The ruling party are a bunch of right-wing lunatics in South Korea

President Park is Abe with a skirt. They both want to add offensive weapons to be able to strike North Korea including nuclear missiles. The only thing this will do is make ALL countries in Asia want more. Then suddenly you have at least four countries in Asia that are very close to each other (North Korea, Japan, South Korea, and China) with nuclear arsenals. Can anyone say MAD?