A “Critical Issues Poll” conducted by the University of Maryland in November found that 52 percent of Americans would support the placement of American nuke warheads in Japan and/or South Korea if Pyongyang doesn’t give up nuclear weapons. 21 percent opposed the move; 27 percent said they didn’t know; 1 percent declined to give an answer.
On the issue of Japan acquiring their own nuclear weapons, 40 percent of Americans surveyed were opposed. But a sizable 33 percent or about one-third said they backed the idea. 26 percent said they didn’t know, while 1 percent gave no answer.
For South Korea, the response was nearly identical. Forty-one percent opposed a South Korean nuclear arsenal, while 33 percent or about one-third favored the idea. 26 percent didn’t know and 1 percent refused to reply.
The survey results were presented on Monday at a panel on “Confronting North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs: American and Japanese views of threats and options compared” at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
The online poll was carried out on November 1-6, 2017 from a nationally representative sample. Respondents were recruited by mail and telephone using a random sample of adults. The national sample was 2,000.
Responses were weighted by age, gender, income, education, race, and geographic region using benchmarks from the US Census. The survey was also weighted on political party lines.
When it comes down to it, someone threatens you, so you take measures.
Right?
Sure, even the Chinese Communist dictatorship does that, they lock you up and throw away the key, if you even look like you might be subversive to the regime.
Oh yeah.
You know that I’m correct here.
They aren’t proposing it simply to cover their own butts man, the idea is to reign in North Korea and protect the world including themselves from a rogue state.
The need for this action has been approved by the whole world nearly including China.
Japan and South Korea are stable and trust worthy enough to have the capacity to deal with it effectively and it would apply even more pressure on the North to fall in line.