Moon vows South Korea will not develop nuclear weapons despite threat
2017-11-02 09:08:12 source：Global Times
November 1, 2017
South Korea will not develop atomic weapons of its own despite the threat from the nuclear-armed North, President Moon Jae-in declared Wednesday.
"A push by North Korea to become a nuclear state cannot be accepted or tolerated," Moon said in an address to parliament. "We also will not develop or own nuclear" arms.
South Korean media and opposition politicians have called for US tactical nuclear weapons, which were withdrawn from the peninsula in the 1990s, to be returned.
Some have suggested that if Washington does not agree, Seoul should develop a nuclear capability of its own, in order to ensure what they dub a "balance of terror" on the peninsula.
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