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S. Korea has ability to build nuke weapons quickly: defense report
By Hwang Doo-hyong WASHINGTON, March 17 (Yonhap) -- A U.S. defense report has described South Korea and Japan as having the technology to build nuclear weapons quickly if they decide to do so.
"Several friends or Allies of the United States, such as Japan and South Korea, are highly advanced technological states and could quickly build nuclear devices if they chose to do so," said the Joint Operating Environment (JOE) 2010, released on Feb. 18 by the U.S. Joint Forces Command to forecast possible threats and opportunities for the U.S. military.
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