Pressure over Ukraine is firing up the nuclear debate on the Korean peninsula, and South Korea’s President travels to Washington, D.C. this week wondering whether to worry more about angering the Russians or deepening his relationship with President Biden.
Amid U.S. pressure on South Korea to take a more assertive position on Ukraine, Yoon sparked a firestorm of controversy by hinting at providing arms for Ukraine. South Korea might go beyond “humanitarian or financial support” for Ukraine,, “if there is a situation the international community cannot condone, such as any large-scale attack on civilians, massacre or serious violation of the laws of war.
More worrying was a comment by Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, in which the former Russian president hinted at supplying arms to North Korea in retaliation. What would South Koreans say, he wondered aloud, “when they see the latest Russian weapons are in the hands of their closest neighbors—our partners from North Korea.
“My guess is they will discuss deployment of tactical nukes to the Peninsula in wartime , and perhaps even the building of staging facilities to do so,” Bruce Bechtol, author of books and studies on North Korea’s armed forces, told The Daily Beast.
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