Have Koreans stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb?
South Korea's Hyunmoo 2 missile. What’s this? A piece in English on Korean public opinion that is good ! Please read it because this kind of behaviour needs encouraging. They find the attempts at a peace process are very popular though most South Koreans are sceptical that it will lead to North Korea giving up the bomb in line with other polling on the issue. It also provides yet another solid rejection of the idea South Koreans oppose the US-Korea alliance. 63% of South Koreans think something related to the US is the main reason the North has not launched a large scale stack on the South in the last 10 years (36% say the US-Korea alliance, 20% US troops being in South Korea, 7% the US nuclear umbrella.). The main bit of this post was going to add some caveats to the finding that South Koreans want nukes (albeit slightly less so than in the past). Luckily one of the authors of the piece has already done that on twitter