Australia BUCKS Trump’s Asia nuclear policy

SYDNEY: Australia opposes Donald Trump’s suggestion that Japan and South Korea should develop nuclear weapons since this would “add considerably” to the risk of regional conflict, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Sunday. The Republican presidential front-runner had declared he would withdraw US troops from both countries and allow them to develop their own nuclear arsenals.

But Turnbull said regional power Australia, a US ally, was “opposed to the further proliferation of nuclear weapons.”