South Koreans are concerned about North Korea's progress in developing nuclear weapons.
In South Korea There is growing initiative to develop our own nuclear weapons amid deepening military cooperation between North Korea and Russia and the expected return of Donald Trump to power in the United States.
About this writes Financial Times.
66% of South Koreans “support” or “strongly support,” a recent poll found. nuclear weapons in the arsenal of their own army. That's up 6 percentage points from last year. government, neither of the two major parties has accepted this as a policy issue, but calls to discuss the option are certainly growing louder,” said Korean analyst Sangsin Lee.
The publication writes that South Koreans are concerned about the DPRK's progress in developing nuclear weapons and creating ballistic missiles, as well as Pyongyang's cooperation with Moscow and open hostility Donald Trump to the US-South Korea alliance.
At the same time, the Prime Minister of South Korea Han Dak-soo in June said the country was not considering developing its own nuclear weapons “at the moment.” While a possible contender for the presidency in 2027, Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon, on the contrary, supports the idea of nuclear weapons.
Meanwhile, in Belarus they are trying again intimidate Ukraine with nuclear weapons.
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