US Rules Out Redeploying Tactical Nukes to South Korea

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — The United States would not support redeploying tactical nuclear weapons to South Korea, or a nuclear weapons sharing arrangement with Seoul, according to a U.S. State Department official, after a leading South Korean presidential candidate proposed the move. "All I can say is, U.S. policy would not support that. And I would be surprised that the people who issued that policy don’t know — or [who] issued those statements — don’t know what U.S. policy is," said Mark Lambert, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for Japan and Korea, in an online forum. The statement was…