On October 13, 2022, at the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a reporter asked about China's attitude about the incident where South Korea hopes the United States will deploy nuclear weapons in South Korea.

On October 13, 2022, at the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a reporter asked about China's attitude about the incident where South Korea hopes the United States will deploy nuclear weapon in South Korea.

A spokesperson for my country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs also clearly replied, hoping that all relevant parties can abide by their international obligations and commitments and use practical actions to maintain peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.

Will South Korea really agree to the United States deploying nuclear weapons in its field? How far is South Korea, which is willing to deploy nuclear weapons in the United States, be away from becoming the second Ukraine?

1. South Korea denies the intention to deploy nuclear weapons

The reason why South Korea proposed the idea of wanting the United States to deploy nuclear weapons on the ground is because the recent situation on the Korean Peninsula has begun to become nervous again.

Since September, South Korea has found signs of North Korea conducting its seventh nuclear test. In October, North Korean leaders also publicly stated that they should strengthen the construction of their own nuclear weapons capabilities.

Based on this, the United States and South Korea judged that in the future, North Korea is likely to restart nuclear tests, so a large-scale joint military exercise was launched on the Korean Peninsula, and the situation on the peninsula deteriorated again.

Under such a tense situation, there have been voices within the ruling South Korean National Power Party that South Korea also wants to develop nuclear weapons on its own, or allow the United States to deploy nuclear weapons in South Korea.

In their opinion, nuclear weapons can play a significant deterrent role in North Korea and make it "calm".

As the party congress is about to be held, many people have put forward very similar propositions, and even many opposition parties have proposed to introduce NATO -style nuclear sharing strategy.

This argument is becoming stronger and stronger in South Korea. It seems that only the Presidential Office nodded in agreement, but the Presidential Office has never agreed.

Faced with this argument, South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin denied this public opinion on October 24. He proposed that South Korea will not discuss matters such as sharing nuclear weapons with the United States.

Park Jin also emphasized that South Korea will always adhere to the strategy of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, and South Korea's basic policy has always been to increase the commitment of South Korea and the United States to assist in defense and improve its resistance.

From his words, we can see that South Korea does not want to provoke conflicts on its own initiative, and they still hope that the Korean Peninsula can be peaceful and stable.

However, at the end of the speech, Park Jin added that South Korea will pursue other "extended deterrence" methods with the United States.

What is "extended deterrence"? Generally refers to the party that possesses nuclear weapons (or supernuclear powers), which relies on its nuclear deterrence and gives its friends and neighbors or allies nuclear protection with .

And South Korea said this, that is, South Korea hopes that the United States can use nuclear deterrence to its opponents when South Korea is in danger.

South Korean Unification Minister Kwon Ning-seok also said that although there are indeed different opinions within the party, whether it is introducing nuclear weapons alone or sharing nuclear weapons with the US military, it is not the official position of the ruling party. The current South Korean government will not withdraw or stop the agreement signed by the previous government and North Korea.

U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Goldberg's attitude towards this matter seems to be consistent with Park Jin and Kuan Ningse-seok .

At a seminar in Seoul, Goldberg said: The strategy of deploying nuclear weapons will not reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula. This kind of discussion is irresponsible and dangerous, whether from Russia or North Korea.

The current attitudes shown by the United States and South Korea are all saying that they will not deploy nuclear weapons in South Korea. However, South Korea is now increasingly dependent on the United States. Will it really not follow the old path of Ukraine?

1. Ukraine's tragedy

Ukraine conflict has been going on until now, Ukraine and Russia have come and gone, and the situation has temporarily frozen, but it is certain that the stalemate is not good for both countries, but given that the war is on the mainland of Ukraine, the longer it drags on, the more serious the division within Ukraine will be.

In fact, at the beginning, no one would think that Ukraine could hold on, but the fact is that Ukraine resisted Russia's attack with the support of the United States and NATO.

However, the more you rely on the United States, the greater the chance of Ukraine becoming a "colonial" of the United States.

At the beginning of independence, Ukraine was still an Eastern European power second only to Russia, and its armed forces were once glorious in the world.

But in the process of constantly seeking to develop "westwardly", domestic society was gradually torn apart and finally dragged into the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

Due to the long-standing hostility and isolation of the United States towards Russia, Ukraine, sandwiched between NATO and Russia, naturally established the United States' object of wining.

After the continuous infiltration of the United States, the pro-American political forces in Ukraine have occupied the vast majority of the forces.

In 2014, the pro-Western faction in Ukraine passed anti-government demonstrations, resulting in the removal of the pro-Russian president Yanukovych , which indirectly led to Russia's annexation of the Crimea region. Since then, the relations between Russia and Ukraine have been in a state of tension.

This state is exploited by the United States, which has many contradictions due to the economy and the epidemic.

2021 Biden takes office as the president of the United States, and the social divisions are even worse. Public issues such as rampant guns, illegal immigration, and abortion rights have caused extreme confrontation in American families, social relations and even political party politics.

plus an epidemic has caused the US economy to begin to decline, and inflation remains high.

At this time, the United States urgently needs to divert domestic conflicts, so the tense state between Russia and Ukraine became the United States' goal.

The current Ukrainian President Zelens is basically a "political amateur". He neither understands the international situation nor does he consider the consequences at all when doing things.

After he took office, he wanted to solve the Crimea problem. The goal of Ukraine joining NATO was re-entered into Ukraine's constitution.

And in order to put pressure on Russia, Zelensky took the initiative to ask Biden for help, which was in line with the wishes of the Democratic Party of the United States.

Before Biden took office, he began to emphasize that the United States should strengthen its presence and influence in things in Europe. After taking office,

began to frequently participate in European affairs with flags, which led to the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

After the outbreak of the war, Biden continued to express his support for Ukraine to the last person.

With the support of the United States, Zelensky's attitude towards Russia became tougher. It was precisely because of the war support behind the United States that the Russian-Ukrainian war has not yet been achieved today.

This war has been defeated. Now, Russia and Ukraine are both dragged down by the war, and Europe is also affected by the conflict, triggering the energy crisis . Instead, the United States has become the only country that benefits.

Due to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the United States' military-industrial complex ushered in a large order, and the original old inventory was quickly cleared, which increased a lot of revenue.

The transaction between Europe and Russia was blocked, and the United States' oil and gas took this opportunity to enter the European market at a high price, and the United States made another wave of profit.

After the war in Europe, a large number of capitalists fled and entered the United States. Feder relied on hike rate and sucked out EU . This is a timely help for the United States, which is short of money.

Now South Korea is also facing the same choice as Ukraine. Should we maintain the status quo of the Korean Peninsula, or learn from Ukraine to constantly put pressure on North Korea with the support of the United States?

. The reason why South Korea has voiced out is that it is to allow the United States to deploy nuclear weapons in South Korea, perhaps to avoid the consequences of Ukraine. It is to ask the United States to deploy nuclear weapons protection in advance.

But South Korean government officials publicly stated that refuting the rumor shows that the South Korean government is also very hesitant about the matter. After all, once the United States deploys nuclear weapons in South Korea, if the peninsula is war or peace, then there will be nothing South Korea has to do.

This is obviously contrary to South Korea, which wants to become an independent country.

1. South Korea's road to independence

Although South Korea has always had US troops and is protected by the United States in terms of security, after entering the 21st century, with the development of South Korea's economy, many South Korean presidents have the intention to reduce the US troops stationed again in South Korea and strive to achieve independence.

Ro Moo-hyun came to power, negotiated to revoke the wartime army command power controlled by the US military.

After Moon Jae-in came to power, he continued to negotiate with the United States on the withdrawal of wartime military command and discussed the US military base in South Korea. Although South Korea has not taken back due to the epidemic, economic and other reasons in the end, this move has shown that in the South Korean government, many progressive people have begun to express their willingness to get rid of the United States and be independent through actions.

In addition, South Korea has also begun to significantly increase its national defense spending to promote the realization of national defense autonomous goals.

In recent years, South Korea's equipment independence has made great progress. South Korea's unmanned weapons have made great progress. At sea, South Korea has also added research and development of new warships.

In the field of military aerospace, South Korea has also established a reconnaissance and early warning system, improved air defense capabilities, and focused on the development of high-performance equipment.

These are the first steps South Korea is preparing to break free from US military control and achieve independence.

South Korean President After Yoon Seo-yeol took office, he has been advocating the construction of "national defense independence", so he also hopes that South Korea will be independent.

Yoon Seok-young's heart was cleared. Only by realizing national defense independence can South Korea gain independence and independence in both politics and economy.

So, Yoon Seo-yue's government denied the intention of the party insiders to hope that the United States would deploy nuclear weapons. What he really hopes is to reduce North Korea's sense of crisis through peaceful negotiations with North Korea and use economic interests and security commitments to ultimately abandon nuclear weapons.

But on the other hand, Yoon Seok-yeol also made the worst plan, so there is what Park Jin calls pursuit of "extended deterrence".

However, from the current situation, although South Korea's independent national defense path cannot see hope and the situation in North Korea has not eased, South Korea is very clear about its development direction and should be independent, rather than putting all hope on "NATO" and "US", posting videos every day, and giving speeches to various organizations to "request" the United States and NATO to make money.

So South Korea is likely to not become the second Ukraine in the future, at least there will be no current situation in Ukraine.