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Sat, May 21, 2022 | 12:06
Foreign Affairs
US House passes bill recommending tactical nukes in Korea
美하원, 전술핵무기 재배치 국방수권법안 처리
Posted : 2012-05-19 11:57
Updated : 2012-05-19 11:57
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WASHINGTON(Yonhap) -- The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed the 2013 national defense authorization bill that recommends the redeployment of tactical nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula.

The non-binding amendment approved by the House reflects the Republican Party's push to get the incumbent Obama administration to take a firmer stance against North Korea's nuclear weapons threat.

The Republicans who control the House have also hinted that the redeployment of short-range, low yield nukes in South Korea and other parts of Northeast Asia could help nudge China into pressuring North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions. Conservative lawmakers in Washington have been frustrated by China's reluctance to push North Korea on the nuclear issue.

Despite the passage of the amendment, both the U.S. State and Defense departments said Washington is committed to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

The White House also said it could veto the bill, while Seoul officially said any deployment of nuclear weapons would run counter to the 1992 inter-Korean declaration on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

Korea's military added that such a move would work against ongoing efforts to get North Korea to give up its own nuclear weapons program.

Before the early 1990s, the U.S. stockpiled tactical nukes, such as the very short range Honest John surface-to-surface missile, nuclear artillery rounds, and bombs that could be dropped from attack aircraft, in the South to deter North Korean aggression.

The passage of the bill in the House follows the motion being approved by the House Armed Services Committee on May 9.

Congressional sources said another amendment that opposed recommending the redeployment of nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula forwarded by a Democratic lawmaker was rejected.

美하원, 전술핵무기 재배치 국방수권법안 처리
미국 하원이 18일(현지시간) 의결한 내년도 국방예산안을 담은 `2013 국방수권법 수정안'은 북한의 핵·미사일 개발 위협에 맞대응하기 위해 한반도를 포함한 동아시아 지역에 미국의 전술 핵무기 재배치를 미 정부에 권고하는 내용이 담긴 것으로 나타났다. 이번 수정안은 강제력을 수반한 것이 아니지만 북한의 핵 위협에 버락 오바마 행정부가 강경 대처해야 한다는 공화당의 정서가 담겨있는 것으로 평가된다. 하지만 미 국무부와 국방부는 이미 "한반도 비핵화 정책에 변함없으며 한반도에 전술핵이 불필요하다"고 밝힌 바 있다. 백악관은 하원이 이날 통과시킨 국방수권법 수정안에 대한 거부권 행사 방침을 밝히고 있다. 앞서 미 하원 군사위원회는 지난 9일 전체회의에서 서태평양 지역에 미군의 재래식 전력을 확대하고 전술핵무기를 재배치하는 내용이 포함된 `2013 국방수권법 수정안'을 찬성 32대 반대 26으로 가결했다. 이날 하원 표결에서 민주당의 핸크 존슨(조지아) 의원은 남한에 전술핵무기를 배치하는 것에 반대하는 수정안을 제출했지만 찬성 160, 반대 261로 부결됐다. 미국은 지난 1991년 조지 H.W 부시 행정부 당시 핵무기 감축선언에 따라 한국에서 전술핵을 철수했으나 최근 북한의 잇단 도발로 한ㆍ미 양국에서 전술핵 재배치 주장이 나오고 있다. (연합뉴스)
 
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