CNN Unique: South Korea would not want nuclear weapons to face the North, says prime minister

Seoul, South Korea
CNN
 — 

South Korea doesn’t need nuclear arms to deter the threat from North Korea, the country’s Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said in an exclusive interview with CNN – even as public opinion swings the other way amid Asia’s accelerating arms race.

Several recent public surveys “definitely showed that we should re-arm ourselves. In nuclear capability terms, (the surveys say) we should go farther,” Han told CNN anchor and business editor-at-large Richard Quest during a sit-down in Seoul.

One such poll, released last February, found that 71% of more than 1,300 respondents in the country were in favor of South Korea developing its own nuclear weapons – a once-unthinkable idea that has become increasingly mainstream in the past decade, with rising tensions in the Korean Peninsula and dwindling confidence in South Korea toward US protection.

However,…

The post CNN Unique: South Korea would not want nuclear weapons to face the North, says prime minister appeared first on CaymanMama.com.

from CaymanMama.com https://ift.tt/0IXYqNU