South Korea may develop nuclear weapons
There is a small but real risk that Seoul will respond to the North Korean threat by building nuclear weapons of its own
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In this article
- Capability
- Risk drivers
- Fear of abandonment
- Independence
- Pyongyang's new capabilities
- Normalisation
- Fear of 'Korea passing'
- Consequences
- International sanctions
- US opposition
- Chinese sanctions
- Northern aggression
- Proliferation cascade
- Intangible costs
- US alternative
- Key uncertainties
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