{"id":1529,"date":"2024-10-20T19:12:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T13:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/south-korea-needs-nukes-seoul-mayor\/"},"modified":"2024-10-20T19:12:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T13:42:33","slug":"south-korea-needs-nukes-seoul-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/south-korea-needs-nukes-seoul-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea needs nukes \u2013 Seoul mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>North Korea has resorted to \u2018brazen provocations\u2019 because its neighbor lacks such weaponry, Oh Se-hoon has claimed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>South Korea must have a nuclear deterrent in order to keep its northern neighbor at bay at all times, Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon has said.<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post on Friday, Oh denounced what he called<em> \u201cunbearable threats\u201d<\/em> against his city, referring to comments made by Kim Jong-un, who recently called South Korea a <em>\u201chostile nation.\u201d<\/em> A photo released by the North\u2019s state-run Korean Central News Agency showed the DPRK\u2019s supreme leader conferring with his top officials over a map of Seoul.<\/p>\n<p>Oh said he felt <em>\u201canger\u201d<\/em> and <em>\u201cdeep frustration\u201d<\/em> as he witnessed Pyongyang <em>\u201crepeatedly make threats\u201d<\/em> against his city, located just around 50km from the border. <em>\u201cNorth Korea has been sending trash-laden balloons across the border, causing property damage and fires in various places. Not long ago, they even bombarded areas right in front of our demilitarized zone and the east coast,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/605938-north-korea-threatens-declaration-war\/\">North Korea threatens to declare war<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the mayor, North Korea has only dared to engage in those <em>\u201cbrazen and provocative actions\u201d<\/em> because it possesses nuclear weapons, while South Korea does not, creating what he called an <em>\u201casymmetric\u201d<\/em> situation.<br \/><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis is why we must urgently increase our nuclear deterrence capabilities\u2026 There is no other way to achieve peace than by strengthening national defense,\u201d<\/em> he said, without elaborating on how he plans to accomplish such a feat.<\/p>\n<p>Oh has been one of the most high-profile South Korean politicians to advocate for Seoul acquiring a nuclear arsenal. However, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has said that the country does not seek to create its own nukes, reiterating his pledge to double efforts on honing a nuclear deterrence strategy with the US, which has provided Seoul with a nuclear umbrella since the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions on the Korean peninsula have flared in recent weeks, with Pyongyang threatening to retaliate for what it says was a South Korean military drone that crashed on its soil. It has also blown up roads and rail lines on the border as part of the <em>\u201cphased complete separation\u201d<\/em> of the North and South, citing a <em>\u201cgrave security situation.\u201d<\/em> The North has also accused the South of sending drones across the border to scatter leaflets full of <em>\u201cpolitical propaganda and slander.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>North Korea has also repeatedly denounced South Korea\u2019s joint military exercises with the US, viewing them as a preparation for a possible invasion.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea resorts to \u2018brazen provocations\u2019 because its southern neighbor has no nuclear weapons, Mayor Oh Se-hoon has claimed Read Full Article at RT.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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