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Should Japan and South Korea develop nuclear weapons?

Should S Korea and Japan have nuclear weapons?

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Bucky said:
Maybe because North Korea can attack Alaska and Hawaii?
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They can but realistically they would attack South Korea and Japan (along first with the American forces there) first.
 
joG said:
I cannot really believe anyone is shocked about the 'can do' of these guys. What has been shocking is the way our politicians have been handling it.
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"We are going to pretend that that sanctions will work even thought they dont generally work and even though there is no evidence that they are working here and why would they when North Korea is more a global criminal enterprise than they are a country....we dont even need a back up plan...the old "delay and pray" plan".

Is this what you are referring to?
 
PoS said:
Every country should have nukes. MAD for everybody = no war.
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Oh My No.

But we could do it, such a plan will certainly bring a global government to us faster as the more piles of nukes around the faster we can expect the terrorists to get and use some.
 
HonestJoe said:
That’d be a pointless waste of money. NK is already under threat of nuclear retaliation from the US and potentially China (not to mention all the other consequences) if it actually tried to launch a nuclear attack against anyone. I’d expect trying to set up nuclear weapons in SK would be a security nightmare, provide zero practical benefit and given the reaction to US conventional weapons there, be unpopular among the SK people (not that any of the decision makers actually care about them).

This kind of talk can only serve to escalate the situation, as if you want it to end with a nuclear wasteland in the whole region. We need to accept that the only way to actually resolve this mess is to either bite the bullet and actively force some kind of regime change or accept the NK leadership is what it is and find a way to hold our noses and work with them. Ironically, a more conciliatory approach could actually weaken their position at home which is based so much of all the evil outsiders hating them. You’d think Trump of all people who understand that style of propaganda all too well. :(
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Even a nuclear attack on US soil wouldn't trigger a nuclear response from us. We'd go with high altitude bombers turning NK's military into a big pile of dead people and junk metal and then send in the SK army to kill the few who found a place a hide and weren't smart enough to burn their uniforms. It wouldn't take long and it wouldn't require nukes. The bad part would be the loss of Seoul, if SK wasn't able to evacuate it fast enough.
 
DaveFagan said:
More psychopaths with fingers on the button.
Egomaniacal and egocentric leaders on the button.
Money masters deciding if profitable to push the button.
Collecting debts with nuclear threats on the button.
Curing overpopulation and AGW by pushing the button.
The button is power and evil seeks power.
Nukes, the button, in a self destructive human environment.
The USA is leading this insanity because it is big business.
The military talks tactical use of nukes ignoring Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Just a small nuke here, there a nuke, everywhere a nuke, Dream World or nightmare.
Great Power/Energy is destroying our Planet.
Has anyone noticed?
???
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:roll:
 
faithful_servant said:
...and artillery batteries loaded with nerve gas that are locked onto Seoul 24/7 and can be launched within a couple seconds.
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Don't doubt it. The shear numbers would be hard to take out.

Our guys are prepared for anything but, not the public in general.
 
Yes, both Japan and South Korea should have nuclear weapons.
 
They may as well. Trump isn't even protecting the US from Russia and North Korea.
 
If the commitment of the United States to defend Japan and South Korea from nuclear attack by North Korea were clear, those nations would not need to develop nuclear weapons of their own. No other nation in the Western Hemisphere had nuclear weapons in October, 1962, and yet President Kennedy secured all of them against any possible nuclear attack launched from Cuba by making clear the U.S. would regard that as an attack by the Soviet Union on the U.S., calling for a full retaliatory response against the Soviet Union.
 
faithful_servant said:
...and artillery batteries loaded with nerve gas that are locked onto Seoul 24/7 and can be launched within a couple seconds.
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Are military has trained, hard, in taking tubes out in a hurry for just that reason. Best estimate is we could limit SK casualties to maybe as low as 250k if everything goes right. Kinda helps you understand why SK opposes military solutions to NK...
 
Personally, after Hiroshima, Nagasaki and now Fukushima I am not sure Japan wants anything to do with nuclear anything.
 
Bucky said:
Maybe because North Korea can attack Alaska and Hawaii?
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North Korea will not attack us unless they wish to cease being a country forever. If they do they will find out that we have thousands of tactical Nukes. But the real problem for Korea is the accuracy in which we can deploy them. We don't have to strike back with everything we got immediately. We can wait for favorable winds to make sure the radiation only flows across their country. Minimizing collateral damage to other countries. But they will be just as dead.

North Korea or Iran will hand off a nuke to a lone wolf terrorist to attack us. With our unsecure border it will be too easy for a few radical nuts to hit us where it hurts.
 
Sabre said:
Personally, after Hiroshima, Nagasaki and now Fukushima I am not sure Japan wants anything to do with nuclear anything.
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Prime Minister Abe is considered an extreme militarist and nationalist for promoting the idea that Japan should be able to fight in places other than the Japanese islands in the event of war. Outside of the Uyoku Dantai, there is almost no one in Japan that wants Japan to have nuclear weapons.
 
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