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Feb. 15, 2013
North Korea's Tuesday test of a nuclear device has spurred some hawkish South Korean lawmakers to again argue their country should also pursue its own deterrent, the Wall Street Journal reported.
"You just can’t deal with a gangster in your neighborhood who has bought a new machine gun with a stone," former governing party leader Representative Chung Mong-joon said on Wednesday.
"There are some people saying South Korea should also have nuclear weapons. Those remarks are patriotic and think highly of them," President Lee Myung-bak told the Dong-A Ilbo newspaper. "I don’t think the comments are wrong because they also serve as a warning to North Korea and China."
http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/south-korean-hardliners-renew-calls-nuclear-arms-after-norths-test/
Do you think that they'll actually go for it?
North Korea's Tuesday test of a nuclear device has spurred some hawkish South Korean lawmakers to again argue their country should also pursue its own deterrent, the Wall Street Journal reported.
"You just can’t deal with a gangster in your neighborhood who has bought a new machine gun with a stone," former governing party leader Representative Chung Mong-joon said on Wednesday.
"There are some people saying South Korea should also have nuclear weapons. Those remarks are patriotic and think highly of them," President Lee Myung-bak told the Dong-A Ilbo newspaper. "I don’t think the comments are wrong because they also serve as a warning to North Korea and China."
http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/south-korean-hardliners-renew-calls-nuclear-arms-after-norths-test/
Do you think that they'll actually go for it?
