S.Korean Military Against Redeployment of U.S. Nukes

The Defense Ministry believes an amendment adopted by the U.S. House Armed Services Committee to redeploy tactical nuclear weapons in the Korean Peninsula will hurt attempts to resolve the North Korean nuclear weapon issues.

A military source said on Sunday, "If the U.S. redeploys nuclear weapons here, it means that we are abandoning the Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula adopted by the two Koreas in December 1991. This can only mean that we are removing the solid grounds to persuade North Korea to give up its own nuclear weapons."

But he added that redeployment of nuclear weapons is unrealistic because the U.S. must have destroyed much of the forward-based nuclear weapons it withdrew from South Korea in 1991.

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