The U.S. government has officially reiterated that it has no plans to redeploy tactical nuclear weapons in South Korea.

The deputy spokesman for the U.S. National Security Council says that the Obama administration remains in support of a nonnuclear Korean Peninsula and that there is no plan to change that stance.
He said that tactical nuclear weapons are unnecessary for the defense of South Korea.

Earlier some domestic media outlets cited remarks by White House Coordinator for Weapons of Mass Destruction, Security and Arms Control Gary Samore in which he said that Washington could be willing to discuss the issue, if Seoul officially requests the redeployment of tactical nuclear weapons.

The U.S. removed all its tactical nuclear weapons from South Korea in 1991, as the two Koreas signed an agreement on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.