Deploying nuclear weapons to the peninsula would cut down the time it would take to retaliate or launch a preemptive strike against North Korea, but it could also dramatically increase the chance of a hasty or mistaken nuclear launch. US and South Korean forces are definitely technically capable of decimating the North Korean military with conventional methods alone, though not without weeks or months of troop deployment and potentially gruesome consequences such as mass shelling of South Koreas capital, Seoul. While both North and South Korea then agreed to keep nuclear weaponry off the peninsula, North Korea claims having US nuclear umbrella protection is a de facto violation of South Koreas commitment, and its own program is a clear violation.
Bush approved the Presidential Nuclear Initiative, the Post noted.
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The redeployment of tactical nuclear weapons is an alternative worth a full review, Song added, though according to the Post did not mention Mattis response. Per the Washington Post, Song informed a parliamentary committee he told Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis that It would be good for strategic assets to be sent regularly to the Korean Peninsula and that some South Korean lawmakers and media are strongly pushing for tactical nuclear weapons. Now the situation seems poised to escalate even further, with South Korean Defense Minister Song Young moo investigating the possibility of having the US plant its nukes back on the demilitarized zones doorstep. Tensions on the Korean peninsula between North Korea and virtually every other country in the region continue to escalate in the wake of its possible detonation of a hydrogen bomb this weekend. South Korea May Ask US to Re Deploy Its Nuclear Weapons.