Top conservative wants to 'answer nukes with nukes' rather than hold talks with the North
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un. Picture: BLOOMBERG via GETTY IMAGES/SEONG-JOON CHO
“If you look at the way the US approaches North Korea with diplomacy, they’ve gotten dragged into their ways,” he said, adding that Pyongyang “will never back down, they’ll just pretend to back down.” Hong said the test was not surprising and underscored the threat South Korea faced from North Korea’s arsenal of missiles that can strike the country and neutralise the US’s nuclear defence network.
“Nukes can only be countered with nukes,” he said, adding “the balance of terror via nuclear weapons was achieved in Europe. The inter-Korean front is a more dangerous place than Europe.”
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