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Koreans clamor for U.S. nukes as NATO showers Ukraine with armor and Washington buys missile-tracking satellites

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Wayne Arnold
Jan 06, 2023
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North Korea’s drumbeat of missile tests has spooked South Koreans to the point that they’re asking the U.S. to bring nuclear weapons back to the Korean peninsula.

The U.S. kept nukes in Korea until the early 1990s, when it withdrew them as part of an arms control treaty with the soon-to-collapse Soviet Union. Seoul can’t develop its own nukes as a signa…

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