South Korea Hovers on the Brink of a Decision Whether To Become the World’s Tenth Nuclear Nation

Trump effect adds urgency to the question as a fast-rising threat is coming into focus in North Korea.

AP/Lee Jin-man
A soldier stands at a North Korean military guard post flying a national flag, seen from Paju, South Korea. AP/Lee Jin-man

South Korean conservatives are counting on the return of Donald Trump to the White House slightly more than two months from now to add urgency to demands for the South to produce its own nukes in response to the fast-rising threat from the world’s ninth nuclear nation, North Korea.

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