Why would the ROK publicly state that it may have to introduce tactical nukes on the peninsula?
Now the DPRK has to respond publicly....
Japan: N. Korea’s New Uranium Enrichment Unacceptable
11/22/10
North Korea’s latest claims to have a working uranium enrichment program are “absolutely unacceptable,” Japan’s top government spokesman Yoshiito Sengoku said Monday.
His comment follows disclosures by a US scientist that he had toured a modern uranium enrichment plant in the communist state, raising the prospect that Pyongyang is preparing to build a more powerful atomic bomb.
http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/Ne...2577E3001B8001
They will go for 3rd nuclear test anyway. It will put to rest resurgent bout of appeasement fever: the campaign by some in Lee’s gov to send half a million tons of rice to NK.
I thought the ROK publicity was in response to the DPRK announcements.