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Originally posted by PornoDoggy@Sep 23 2004, 12:15 PM
Using Iraq may in fact be almost as silly as comparing South Korea to Canada. The same cannot be said about Iran under the Shah until the last ten or so years of his career as a puppet. The fact of the matter is, you cannot predict what will happen in such a violatle, "dynamic" environment.
I personally think you are taking a very short-sighted view. South Korean nukes would complicate an already delicate balance of power. The more smaller nuclear club members there are, the more likely those nukes would fall into the wrong hands.
My two biggest concerns are that possession of nuclear weapons could encourage rash actions on the part of the South Koreans, or (and this is my biggest concern) cause Japan to fully rearm to the extent of its capabilities.
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I'm not saying it's an ideal situation but given that the North already has them, and I'm pretty damn sure they do, the South having them makes it no less volatile than it already is, IMHO. If Japan was so worried about nukes on the Korean peninsula, why aren't they doing anything about the North?
I don't see the South as flying off the handle once they have nukes. They just don't operate that way.