[garbageseeker]

The South Koreans have modified Nike-Hercules systems that can hit North Korea they have had for a while. The United States for decades has had tactical nuclear weapons.

To have these things in the U.S. arsenal is justified in the Korean peninsula. Because you are dealing with the North Korean army that has one million men and has six million in reserves that is determined to run you off the continent.

[John Valentine]

Tactical missile systems can be seen as incremental improvements on existing systems. Nukes would have been a violation.

I agree that the terms of the armistice are and have been largely a dead letter for dacades, and that's why I couched my comment in the vernaccular, as in "Oh, and Dude, you know, keeping a, er, amphibious rodent as a pet, within the city, well, that ain't exactly legal either."