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Nuclear weapons: Why South Koreans want the bomb
How seriously or to what extent are South Koreans thinking about arming the nation with nuclear weapons? Will nuclear armaments deter the North’s aggression or bring the peninsula peace? The US military has been stationing over 20,000 troops in South Korea, including the Air Force, Navy, and Marines since 1957. It is part of the US’s commitment to defend South Korea while having the nation give up nuclear armaments. However, as North Korea is becoming more aggressive in nuclear-capable ballistic missile testing, South Koreans, including the president and politicians, have started discussing this once-inconceivable option for fear of not getting full support from the US. Are people in India and Pakistan feel safer with their nuclear weapons? Won’t talks, exchanges, or trades bring mutual benefits and peaceful coexistence to neighboring countries? After all, 26 million North Koreans and 52 million South Koreans are both Koreans, living on one peninsula, speaking the same language, and sharing the same culture and traditions.
Read the article and think about how fear could make people overreact.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65333139
Nuclear weapons: Why South Koreans want the bomb
How seriously or to what extent are South Koreans thinking about arming the nation with nuclear weapons? Will nuclear armaments deter the North’s aggression or bring the peninsula peace? The US military has been stationing over 20,000 troops in South Korea, including the Air Force, Navy, and Marines since 1957. It is part of the US’s commitment to defend South Korea while having the nation give up nuclear armaments. However, as North Korea is becoming more aggressive in nuclear-capable ballistic missile testing, South Koreans, including the president and politicians, have started discussing this once-inconceivable option for fear of not getting full support from the US. Are people in India and Pakistan feel safer with their nuclear weapons? Won’t talks, exchanges, or trades bring mutual benefits and peaceful coexistence to neighboring countries? After all, 26 million North Koreans and 52 million South Koreans are both Koreans, living on one peninsula, speaking the same language, and sharing the same culture and traditions.
Read the article and think about how fear could make people overreact.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65333139
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