Südkorea sagt, dass Nordkorea niemals als Atommacht anerkannt werden kann, nachdem der Trump-Kandidat Pjöngjang als solche bezeichnet hat

    https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20250115006600315

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    1. shevy-java on

      I think South Korea should build up a defensive nuclear arsenal. You don’t have to go crazy like the USA, Russia or China (soon), but e. g. like France: about 400 nukes for ~60 million people. So South Korea may aim for 250-350 or so, give or take (may get away with fewer than that, if it is purely defensive in nature; nukes are expensive, so one has to calculate how much one may need prior to building them).

      The comment by South Korea here, though, makes no sense, because either North Korea has nukes that it can deploy, or it does not. If it has nukes, then by simple logic it is a nuclear armed country.

      > “North Korea’s denuclearization has been a principle consistently upheld by South Korea, the United States and the international community,” the ministry said.

      Those treaties only make sense when countries adhere to it. North Korea does not, so there isn’t much that can be done, unless you want to e. g. invade and overthrow. I don’t know of a nuclear army country that was invaded, though. Overthrowing may then be the only viable option, which also is not easy as China would support North Korea. So, from this point of view, South Korea should not waste time trying to “talk sense” into North Korea but instead build up a nuclear arsenal on its own. The USA also has to change is tactic – China’s allies such as North Korea can build nukes, so to go to parity, all US allies of smaller countries also need nukes.

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