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There may be intensive debate in South Korea over North Korea’s nuclear menace and whether or not, in response, Seoul ought to take extra important measures. Ought to it nuclearize? Do the US and neighboring powers actually need denuclearization and peace on the Korean Peninsula? Can the South Korea-US alliance and the US nuclear deterrent be trusted…