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The Korea Times
in Pyongyang, North Korea, Feb. 8. EPA-YonhapDiscussions about South Korea developing its own nuclear capabilities may be warranted amid increasing nuclear threats from North Korea but the country is not at a point where it should actually consider such an option, a former U.S. National Security Council (NSC) official said Thursday. Gary Samore, former NSC official on nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, also insisted the U.S. extended deterrence is credible enough that any nuclear attack by North Korea against the South or the United States would only be suicidal. The U.S. withdrew all its nuclear arsenal from South Korea in late 1991. Some in South Korea have recently voiced a need to redeploy U.S. nuclear weapons to South Korea or even for South Korea to consider developing its own nuclear capabilities amid an evolving North Korean nuclear threat that included an unprecedented 69 ballistic missile tests in 2022.
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