“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”
Sep 02, 2024
Defense minister nominee Kim Yong-hyun, center, speaks during a confirmation hearing at the National Assembly in Seoul, Sept. 2. Yonhap
LLAW’s NUCLEAR ISSUES & COMMENTS, Monday, (09/02/2024)
About South Korea arming itself with its own nuclear weapons:
This seems like a very bad idea, and I wonder what the American government will have to say about it. I cannot imagine both North and South Korea with nuclear arms; and I would guess that the USA, South Korea’s loyal ally is more than enough to keep North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in check, just as the U.S. has for several years now. This idea could make matters worse for South Korea because Kim Jong Un, who is over-charged to employ his nuclear arsenal somewhere would like nothing better than to use it on his southern neighbor almost as much as he’d like to use it on the United States.
I suspect the U.S. will never allow this to happen because the United Sates already gives them more than enough ‘deterrence’ as deterrence goes in its eventual inability, not only in the U.S., but in all nuclear armed countries) to act as a substitute for avoiding nuclear war instead of simple humanitarian common sense by abolishing all nuclear weapons on planet Earth forever. ~llaw
Defense minister nominee says he is open to idea of S. Korea’s nuclear armament
Posted : 2024-09-02 15:47
Updated : 2024-09-02 15:47
Defense minister nominee Kim Yong-hyun, center, speaks during a confirmation hearing at the National Assembly in Seoul, Sept. 2. Yonhap
Defense minister nominee Kim Yong-hyun said Monday that South Korea’s nuclear armament could be among the options considered to respond to North Korea’s nuclear threats amid high public support for the idea of their country going nuclear.
“That is included among all possible options,” Kim said in a parliamentary confirmation hearing, in response to a question on the possibility of securing room for nuclear armament.
Speaking to reporters last month, Kim said that he was open to all means to respond to North Korea’s nuclear threats, while stressing that the alliance with the United States remains the basis in dealing with such threats.
Kim, who served as the chief of the Presidential Security Service and oversaw the relocation of the presidential office to Yongsan, rejected criticism over the move by main opposition lawmakers, saying the basement bunkers for contingency situations are “much more stronger” at the current location.
In regard to a controversial incident which critics called excessive protection of the president, Kim said measures were reasonably taken in accordance with relevant security guidelines.
On the need to allow women to apply as rank-and-file soldiers amid concerns over the country’s ultra-low birth rate, Kim said the idea should be reviewed as an option but that public consensus over the policy should come first.
Kim, meanwhile, strongly rejected claims by the opposition bloc that the administration of Yoon Suk Yeol is seeking to draw up a martial law plan.
“I believe that confirmation hearings are not held for political instigation of things that are not true,” he said. (Yonhap)
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Nuclear Power Emergencies
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Nuclear War
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China Reacts After Russia Says It Intends To Change Nuclear War Policy – Newsweek
Newsweek
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Nuclear War Threats
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Mint
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Yellowstone Caldera
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Yellowstone supervolcano eruption could trigger ‘nuclear winter’ and mass deaths – MSN
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