In the face of threats from Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, many South Koreans now want to go nuclear.
That’s regardless of enhanced “guidelines for nuclear deterrence” signed by U.S. and South Korean officials on the sidelines of this week’s NATO summit in Washington, at which South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol warned against Russia providing “advanced technology” for North Korean weapons capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
The White House said President Biden pledged “the full range of U.S. capabilities including nuclear” while Yoon promised the Republic of Korea would “greatly contribute to the Alliance’s combined defense posture.” The new guidelines, said the South’s Yonhap News, were designed “to help assuage deepening security concerns in South Korea and reaffirm Seoul’s commitment to the non-nuclear proliferation regime,”
