Discussing a South Korean nuclear program is “inappropriate,” unification minister Kwon Young-se said Sunday, weeks after President Yoon Suk-yeol said the country could rapidly acquire or develop nuclear weapons in a worst-case scenario.

Bringing nuclear weapons to South Korea in any way will be the same as “demolishing the principle of Korean Peninsula denuclearization with our own hands,” he said speaking in a live interview with KBS.

“And wherever the [U.S.] nuclear weapons are — on the peninsula or anywhere nearby — using such a weapon to punish [North Korea] won’t take much time,” the minister added, urging more