October 13, 2006

South Korea Demands U.S. Nuclear Protection

By Tim | October 13, 2006 | Tags: , East Asia |

South Korea is demanding U.S. nuclear protection. Demanding? Isn’t this the same country that had anti-American protests? What of all their “Unification” initiatives? Seems their naughty neighbor might have nuclear weapons and the wherewithal to use them, hence the rethinking of “unification” desires and the demand for U.S. protection:

The Australian—THE South Korean Government has demanded that the US provide it with a detailed “nuclear umbrella” guarantee against attack from the North.

“Due to public anxiety, I have stressed the need for anuclear umbrella from the US,” Defence Minister Yoon Kwang-ung told the National Assembly yesterday, in his first detailed response to Monday’s nuclear bomb test by the Pyongyang regime. …

 

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