Recent polls show that more than 70% of South Koreans want their country to acquire its own nuclear weapons. It’s also something echoed by South Korea’s own president. No doubt, the changing attitude has a lot to do with North Korea’s ongoing missile tests and bellicose rhetoric. But would the South Korean government go so far as to break out of its treaty obligations and anger Washington over this? The World’s Patrick Winn reports.
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