US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said, if elected, he would consider allowing Japan and South Korea to build their own nuclear arsenals instead of depending on America’s “severely depleted” military for their protection against North Korea and China.
The Republican frontrunner said in an interview with The New York Times on Saturday that the US military cannot protect Japan and South Korea for a long time, adding that the US cannot always “be the policeman of the world.”
“There’ll be a point at which we’re just not going to be able to do it anymore,” he said. “We have nuclear arsenals which are in very terrible shape. They don’t even know if they work.”
“If the United States keeps on its path, its current path of weakness, they’re going to want to have that anyway with or without me discussing it, because I don’t think they feel very secure in what’s going on with our country,” he said of Japan…