US 'considering sending tactical nuclear weapons to South Korea'
TEHRAN(Basirat): The U.S. government is considering moving some of its powerful tactical nuclear weapons to South Korea to counter the North's increasing military threat, the NBC reports, citing senior White House and Pentagon officials
The U.S. broadcaster said it was one of many options U.S. President
Donald Trump discussed with his top national security advisers shortly
after North Korea's sixth nuclear test on Sept. 3.
NBC reported
that Seoul's request would be a prerequisite for the deployment. It
added that many of Trump's advisers considered the move a "non-starter"
because the deployment would break with nearly three decades of U.S.
policy of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.
Other options
under Trump's consideration include cyber-attacks on Pyongyang,
increased surveillance, intelligence operations and sanctions on Chinese
banks doing business with Pyongyang, and upgrading missile defense
systems in Southeast Asia.
Meanwhile, the U.S. has formally
requested that the U.N. Security Council hold a vote Monday (New York
time) on a draft resolution imposing fresh sanctions on North Korea in
response to the sixth nuclear test.
Last week, the U.S.
circulated the draft resolution, which calls among other things for an
oil embargo on the North, freezing North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's
assets and banning textile exports from the North.
Source: cetusnews
