News: South Korea won't develop or possess nuclear weapons, president says

South Korean President Moon Jae-in delivers his state of the state address to parliament in national capital on weekday. (Kim Min-hee/European Pressphoto Agency) President Moon Jae-in told lawmakers weekday that South Korea wouldn't look for to own nuclear weapons and aforesaid that national capital would ne'er settle for its neighbor North Korea as a nuclear-armed state. “According to the joint agreement by the 2 Koreas on denuclearization, North Korea’s nuclear state can't be accepted or tolerated. we'll not develop or possess nuclear weapons either,” the president aforesaid in his second state of the state address at the National Assembly, South Korea’s parliament. Recent tests by North Korea have crystal rectifier to a revived discussion concerning nuclear weapons in South Korea. though the country once wanted its own nuclear weapons within the Nineteen Seventies throughout the presidency of Park Chung-hee, leaders were persuaded by the u. s. to abandon such ambiti...