“If they continue to have nuclear weapons,” he said of North Korea, “nuclear weapons must spread in the rest of Asia.”“It cannot be that North Korea is the only Korean country in the world that has nuclear weapons, without the South Koreans trying to match it. PhotoCapability to Build the BombLong before North Korea detonated its first nuclear device, several of its neighbors secretly explored going nuclear themselves. He insists that building them or reintroducing American ones to South Korea would make it even more difficult to persuade North Korea to scrap its own. Given the failure of sanctions, threats and negotiations to stop North Korea, South Koreans are increasingly convinced the North will never give up its nuclear weapons. The Japanese public is largely opposed to nuclear weapons with polls indicating fewer than one in 10 support nuclear armament.

Source: New York Times October 28, 2017 17:03 UTC