Posted on 09/14/2017 3:54:59 PM PDT by mandaladon
The heated debate in South Korea over redeploying U.S. nuclear weapons on its territory has now reached Washington. A senior delegation of South Korean lawmakers is in town making the case to the Trump administration and Congress that such a move is needed to confront North Koreas growing nuclear capability and place more pressure on China.
We are here to ask for redeployment of tactical nuclear warheads in South Korea, Lee Cheol Woo, the head of the intelligence committee of South Koreas National Assembly, told me Thursday morning.
Lee is heading a delegation of members of the Liberty Korea Party, the opposition to President Moon Jae-ins Democratic Party. He is also the chairman of the assemblys special committee for nuclear crisis response.
Moon told CNN yesterday that he does not agree that tactical nuclear weapons should be reintroduced to South Korea or that Seoul should develop its own nuclear weapons. He warned it could lead to a nuclear arms race in northeast Asia. But Lees delegation believes that as the North Korea nuclear crisis worsens, a push by the Trump administration or Congress could help persuade Moons government to change its position, as it has already done regarding the deployment of the THAAD missile defense system.
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China will go crazy if Japan asks to become nuclear
Between a mutually assured destruction of the entire Korean peninsula, and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster... I can only imagine the total devastation and resulting fallout.
Same. And the wind/sea flow sending it across the Pacific.
sooner or later will have another war... ............... Its still the same war, it was only stopped temporarily in 53’, and the reason it stopped, was, IKE sent the Atomic Cannons to Japan.
It seems that such weapons could be speedily delivered from South Korea, just in case South Korean aircraft and submarines might at some point in time be away from good positions. It would also serve to make the North dedicate some resources at all times to cover them.
Send the question to Congress.
Send the question to Congress.
No we won't.
Right now, we don't have the inventory to saturate anything.
We need to have a MASSIVE buildup of not only weaponry (bombs, missiles, artillery shells) but also delivery (bug guns, aircraft and missile launchers). We'd also need to get all of this ready to go and in the theater of operations; meaning South Korea, Okinawa and Japan.
Do you know how many MOABs we have? Not enough!
MOABs are "launched" by parachute pull out of the back of a defenseless cargo plane. Before we can use them on the NORKS, we'd have to take air superiority, meaning killing the NORK Air Force. As a retired airman, I can say that in itself is a mighty big challenge. It can be done, but it will take a huge effort and time on our part.
Unless we go on a crash program to start making massive amounts of conventional weapons now, we would have to use nukes to take out the NORKS.
S. Korea has the cash, industry, technolgy, and ability to develop nukes in about a month if they were left alone
I don't think so, South Korea is good at a few things like ship and car building, but really don't have nuke experience or the raw materials. Japan does, with plenty of weapons-grade plutonium for hundreds of bombs. South Korea would need to get a loaner from Japan.
putting them on the ground in South Korea would force the Russians and Chinese to finally put their pet toad back in it’s box.
Watching a news analysis show maybe 10 years ago - the moderator asked one panelist how long it would take Japan to develop weapons once they got the "thumbs up" from us -
The analyst said: "About 72 hours" (I guess that was spook speak for not very long at all)
we don’t have any tactical nukes in the inventory. all the Lance/Pershing/Honest John/ADM/nuclear arty have been long since retired.
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