President's Office Insists Tactical Nukes Not Under Consideration

The South Korean government is not considering the redeployment of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons on its territory, says an official from the presidential office, as cited by the Yonhap news agency (Seoul).

"There is no change in the government's policy principle of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and we have never reviewed a re-adoption of the tactical nukes," said a presidential official on Sunday following a media report that Washington was willing to consider it...