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January 13, 2023

South Korea Warns It Could Build a Nuclear Arsenal to Counter North Korean Threat
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South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has said his country could build
its own nuclear arsenal or ask for U.S. troops to redeploy if the
nuclear threat from North Korea increases. It's the first time a South
Korean leader raised such a prospect since the U.S. withdrew its nuclear
arms from the South in 1991. The International Campaign to Abolish
Nuclear Weapons said in response, "Suggestions that rejecting agreed
int'l law and norms to develop nuclear weapons are outrageous, and must
be globally condemned. … Adding more nuclear weapons into an already
tense region is like pouring oil onto a grease fire."


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