Trump, South Korea's Moon Agree to Boost Defenses: White House

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in agreed to strengthen their defense posture amid rising tensions with North Korea, the White House said on Friday.

Trump and Moon, who met on Thursday, committed to strengthen their "combined defense posture, including through South Korea’s acquisition and development of highly advanced military assets" and "agreed to the enhanced deployment of U.S. strategic assets in and around South Korea on a rotational basis," the White House said in a statement....

This says Moon is not smart enough to allow the US to base nukes on South Korean territory.

Only a “regular rotation of strategic assets”...in other words, the Trident deterrent.

While the Trident boats are formidable, it’s not the same as having “strategic assets” on your own soil.

It’s of benefit to the US too, as some future POTUS could decline a nuclear war if South Korea were overrun.

Like the cowardly pussies they are.

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We would never surface a Trident boat anywhere but Bangor, Washington in the Pacific fleet, Kings Bay Georgia for Lantflt.

But there is always at least one Trident boat on patrol in the Northern Pacific.

Always.

And we always have the ability to get EAM launch orders to them.

Always.

B-1’s are not nuke enabled, by Treaty with Russia. As far as I know only the B-52 is allowed by treaty (for long range strategic bombers as a class).

Of course each F-35 can carry two of those B-61 or B-83 nukes. They would force a new word into Norklandian language:

“Megatonnage”.

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