Considering that the Blue House cannot even get the remaining four THAAD launchers to the site at Seongju blockaded by protesters, could you imagine the size of the blockade that would happen to any location hosting tactical nuclear weapons? However if the US and the ROK wanted to get China and North Korea’s attention reintroducing tactical nuclear weapons would be one way doing it:
Two B-1B Lancer bombers from Guam and four F-35B stealth fighter jets from U.S. bases in Japan fly over Japan’s air space on Thursday after the United States deployed its strategic assets to South Korea for a live firing exercise near the inter-Korean border, in response to the North’s intermediate-range ballistic missile launch Tuesday. [YONHAP]The Blue House dismissed the possibility of bringing U.S. tactical nuclear weapons to South Korea after reports got out that Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo mentioned the idea in a meeting with his counterparts in Washington.
“We have not discussed anything related to the tactical nuclear weapons in this administration,” said a senior government official of the Blue House. “The Korean government respects the international efforts on nonproliferation and its policies have been and will be in line with these efforts. [Joong Ang Ilbo]
When my spouse went to pilot training in the early nineties, they taught them how to drop nukes (from an F16).
That hasn’t been on the program for quite a while. I doubt the JSF is even designed to hold nukes.
Weird to think we had nukes in the ROK until the nineties too. Removed them per an agreement to keep Korea a nuke free peninsula. And looky what’s happened since then. Which goes to show how much appeasement has worked with the DPRK.
I doubt they ever left.
When my spouse went to pilot training in the early nineties, they taught them how to drop nukes (from an F16).
That hasn’t been on the program for quite a while. I doubt the JSF is even designed to hold nukes.
Weird to think we had nukes in the ROK until the nineties too. Removed them per an agreement to keep Korea a nuke free peninsula. And looky what’s happened since then. Which goes to show how much appeasement has worked with the DPRK.
Sorry that was me above.
OOoo.. Liz is the sock puppet! She did it with the candlestick in the conservatory!
Anyhoo… having tactical nukes isn’t keeping with the RoK’s idiotic victim obsession.
Part of the first agreement with nK, good old Bill Clinton. The first time we paid nK for the getting rid of nukes. How did that work out?
Meanwhile…
South Korean media call for country to build its own nuclear weapons
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/04/south-korean-media-calls-country-build-own-nuclear-weapons
They’d be stolen by slicky boy and surface in Australia.