Top South Korean lawmaker calls for nuclear arms [View all]
Source: yahoo news
A top ruling party official called on Monday for South Korea to develop its own nuclear deterrent to combat the growing nuclear and missile threat from North Korea.
Support for a nuclear-armed South Korea is a minority voice in the country, but one that grows louder after every nuclear test by the North.
US tactical nuclear weapons were withdrawn from South Korea in late 1991, though the country remains under the protection of the US nuclear umbrella.
In the wake of North Korea's fourth nuclear test last month, Won Yoo-Cheol, the ruling Saenuri Party's floor leader, said it was time for the weapons to be re-deployed or for South Korea to get its own.
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