As external threats grow, 71% of South Koreans say their country should build its own nuclear weapons, a poll shows.
Rep. Lee Jae-jung, a left-leaning lawmaker who opposes nuclear armament, said that Washington’s focus on other issues, like the potential for, has prompted South Koreans to consider their own responsibility for self-defense.
“The Yoon administration has made clear that it is not pursuing a nuclear weapons program and that it is working closely with the United States through existing extended deterrence mechanisms,” the spokesperson said.south korean student Lee Hak-joonSouth Korea is a signatory to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, known as the NPT, whichNuclear armament would mostboth China, South Korea’s largest trading partner, and the United States, its longtime defense guarantor.
Official U.S. policy is for all of the Korean Peninsula to be free of nuclear weapons, meaning Washington would not support a nuclear-armed South Korea. Some argue it should instead start sharing its own nuclear weapons with South Korea or redeploy the tactical nuclear weapons it withdrew from the country at the end of the Cold War.
“What is different now is that there’s a nuclear-armed North Korea that threatens to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear South Korea,” Kim said, “and North Korea continues to advance its nuclear missile capability.”Evan Vucci / AP file
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