https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/as-north-korea-flexes-its-muscles-the-other-korea-looks-at-nukes-too/2016/03/20/e2b1bb22-eb88-11e5-a9ce-681055c7a05f_story.html
>What would it take for South Korea to develop nuclear weapons? It’s a fringe idea that rears its head every now and then here.
>But North Korea’s advances in nuclear weapons technology and the frustration over how to deal with Kim Jong Un’s obstinate regime have led a small but growing number of prominent politicians and academics to wonder: Why not us, too?
>“I don’t think that South Korea actually wants nuclear weapons,” said Park Syung-je, chairman of the Asia Strategy Institute in Seoul. “It’s a way of saying to the Chinese that ‘if you don’t cooperate on North Korea, then we’re going to get nuclear weapons of our own.’ ”
>“North Korea’s nuclear weapons capability power is bound to grow, so it is important for South Korea to keep military and power balance between the two Koreas,” said Cheong Seong-chang, a North Korea expert at the Sejong Institute, a think tank, and one of the most prominent advocates of South Korean nuclear weapons.
Would a South Korean nuclear weapons program be feasible? Wouldn't that completely disregard the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?
>>30636
Given the current alliances, more nukes on the pile won't buy anything but more tension.
>>30642
JAPAN IS PIG
>>30642
Such in the life of the Security Dilemma.
>>30636
They could get with Brazil and start a nuke program without anyone knowing.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nuclear-proliferation-in-latin-america-is-brazil-developing-the-bomb-a-693336.html
It would be cruel if the USA and Russia managed to cut the tension they had put on the world by limiting their their nuclear arsenals but some third world chucklefuck started a nuclear war anyways.
>>30636
China allowing this...hell, US allowing this.
Here's how this whole thing plays out fam,
1) NK provokes a armed conflict, both side take their losses. China warns US not to march to Pyong Yang (ain't no way China is having a US aligned NK on its border. China picks through the rubble of the the North and finds an acceptable puppet government, foreign aid floods in and NK is rebuilt as stable counter weight to SK and US in region.
2) China finally has enough of Kim, again finds a acceptable puppet government loyal to Bejing.
China pushes Kim over, stages "friendly intervention" at the request of the NK people.
Warns SK, US to stay out of NK internal affairs. Result, satellite regime of Bejing that acts as counter weight to SK/US.
>>30663
If you the decrease arsenal, you lower the consequences, if the consequences are lower, the risk is more acceptable, if the risk is more acceptable, the thresehold is lower, if the threshold is lower, pushing the button is easier.
Funny isn't it?
I'm sure current ABM tech around South Korea is good enough to stop any the Norks launch.
>>30642
Pbbbbth what a laugh. There's a reason the entrenched players are so anti proliferation. It gets in the way of regime change.
>countries that have given up their nukes
South Africa
Libya
>countries that have given up their nukes that still exist
...
Fucking retarded SK. You get nukes, NK will wants even more nukes, it'll work into their hands.
You have the largest and most powerful nation backing you if shit hits the fan. More nukes are not the answer, unless you want them to launch
I want my own nukes desu
>>30636
The whole point of the nuke treaty was to remind us that MORE NUKES=BAD TIMES. I'd be surprised if anyone would be happy to let SK have nukes.
>>30642
Should've given Japan and Korea nukes so they can annihilate each other
>>30643
Your mom is pig
>>30728
>desu
Where the fuck did you get that from, filters aren't even enabled on /news/
smh tbh fam
>>30815
y-yamete kudasai, onii-chan ;_;
>>30713
Libya never possessed nuclear weapons.
South Africa still exists as a nation.
Actual list of countries that gave up their nuclear weapons:
>Belarus
>Kazakhstan
>South Africa
>Ukraine
Countries that gave up their nuclear weapons and had their territories invaded:
>Ukraine
Ukraine is most damning because they gave up their weapons under the stipulation that the United States and Russia would protect it's sovereignty in lieu of nuclear deterrence, only for Russia to violate that and the United States doing little to counter.
Anyone arguing for a nuclear program and the proliferation of nuclear weapons is a dangerous retard and may even be literally insane.
And some of these people hold political office.
>>30667
3) china annexes nk
>>30636
Where's Section 9 when you need em?
>>30833
Deeeesuu
>>30854
Explain what you mean by this.
Doesn't america have any submarines with ICBMs in them? Just park them near SK and that is it.
>>30981
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGM-133_Trident_II#Submarines_currently_armed_with_Trident_II_missiles
>>30979
Anyone that wants to undermine the progress of START and SALT is insane.
The long-term environmental damage and the immediate human cost are enormous, and world leaders should do everything in their power to dismantle as many warheads as possible, and stop the production of any new weapons in the future. Literally no one benefits from them being around, and the more of them that exist, the less safe every human being on the planet will be.
>>30854
NK doesn't even need nukes to obliterate south Korea Tbh
>>31333
The problem is more the folk in the South who want to arm themselves in response: bringing more nuclear weapons into the world can only be a bad thing.
If we were using them as spacecraft propulsion or as part of an asteroid deflection program, you could probably make a case for having a small centralised stockpile by a community of nations, but keeping them around in any kind of military capacity is retarded.
>>30636
Jokes on South Korea; China is already irradiated.
>>30636
They could easily get the bomb.
but there's no real point. why spend millions to build a bomb when there's a nuclear submarine loaded with missiles just off the coast.
The only strategic option a nuke would give Korea would be the nuclear first strike capabilities in renewed hostilities. And that would be suicide on the world stage.
>>30636
i dont see why we havent set up a missile defense station in south korea
>>30636
Not good, then there will do be chance of disarming NK
>>30843
last time I remember belarus and kazakhstan aren't that much capable with their military might alone and can be easily invaded
>>30863
which is probably the most sane option kek
>>30730
good luck getting india, pakistan, israel or NK to lower their count. They are just increasing them instead
>>31963
Israel needs nukes, others do not and are unneccessarily stocking up
>>32146
india and pakistan need nukes against each other
>>32146
>Israel needs nukes to make sure nobody seriously intervenes in their oppression of the Palestinian people
