I've been living with this open secret for decades and have never publicly commented on it. In the late 60's I was assigned to S. Korea and learned in time that the U.S. had operational nuclear missiles in S. Korea. I have seen, with my own eyes, those missiles and the warheads therein on Nike-Hercules anti-aircraft missiles. I also learned that short range Sargent missiles (so called theater nukes) were there also, although I never saw them. I won't go into greater detail, except to say that every Korean national in the neighborhoods generally knew that they were there, while the typical GIs usually never heard about them unless they worked at or very near the locations. "Rumor Control" is always very active, with "secrets" becoming "open secrets" to be known sooner or later by some people. U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright (then chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) leveled a public charge that these type weapons were deployed there, about 1969 or 1970, but denials etc. soon shut him down. The NKPR continually complained at Panmunjom, and of course their accusations were repeatedly denied. As one could imagine and expect, their representatives were livid! My point is that even though I never learned when the deployments were originally made, or if the weapons are still there today, (I'd bet a bunch they are!) I believe that the fact that such weapons were there and probably are still there {upgraded of course}, is directly responsible for the problems and issues these days with the NKPR. I have stated facts above--not opinion--I know what I know and what I saw! BTW, these are statements of fact and in no way are political! If the dogs are loosed you may want to know at lease one reason why the NKPR is doing what it has been doing and is so worked up about!