Is This a Bad Idea?

Yun: South Korea is concerned about North Korea and wants to deter it. Nuclear weapons do not deter all kinds of things that we might not like to see, he says. If South Korea left the NPT to build nuclear weapons, it would no longer be able to service those contracts or have access to global civil nuclear technology, Yun adds. "There's an emphasis right now on geopolitics over nonproliferation," writes Yun.