People watch a TV news report about North Korea’s hydrogen bomb test at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea on September 3, 2017. (Han Jong-Chan/Yonhap/via REUTERS)
Washington Post: A South Korean delegation asks Washington for nuclear weapons
The heated debate in South Korea over redeploying U.S. nuclear weapons on its territory has now reached Washington. A senior delegation of South Korean lawmakers is in town making the case to the Trump administration and Congress that such a move is needed to confront North Korea’s growing nuclear capability and place more pressure on China.
“We are here to ask for redeployment of tactical nuclear warheads in South Korea,” Lee Cheol Woo, the head of the intelligence committee of South Korea’s National Assembly, told me Thursday morning.
Lee is heading a delegation of members of the Liberty Korea Party, the opposition to President Moon Jae-in’s Democratic Party. He is also the chairman of the assembly’s special committee for nuclear crisis response.
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WNU Editor: This South Korean delegation is made up of lawmakers from the opposition party who are clearly distancing themselves from the South Korean President who voiced the exact opposite position earlier this morning .... South Korean President Does Not Want Nuclear Weapons Because It May Spur A Nuclear Arms Race. But while they may be the opposition party, they are reflecting a change in public sentiment on nuclear weapons in South Korea .... More than ever, South Koreans want their own nuclear weapons ( Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post).