Amid soaring tensions between the US and North Korea, calls are growing in South Korea for the nation to deploy nuclear weapons.
Seoul has for decades forgone the development of atomic weapons in exchange for security commitments under the US’s “nuclear umbrella”, while Washington withdrew its remaining warheads from the peninsula in 1991.
But revelations last week about the rapid advancement of Pyongyang’s nuclear programme have prompted renewed debate about whether South Korea should encourage redeployment of US warheads or even develop its own weapons of mass destruction.
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