韓国は、アメリカ合衆国に、韓国が核燃料処理を出来るように圧力を掛けた
COREA DEL SUR
Seúl presiona a Washington para enriquecer uranio en plena crisis nuclear
EFE Economía Washington 4 ABR 2013 - 00:01 CET
SOUTH KOREA
Seoul pressured Washington to enrich uranium in crisis nuclear
EFE Economics Washington 4 ABR 2013 - 00:01 CET
Seoul pressures to process nuclear fuel for energy, transmitted this week behind closed doors by South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se, in Washington, raise concerns and misgivings full regional crisis.
In the shadow of tensions with North Korea and its nuclear weapons program, requests this week South Korean foreign minister in Washington to the U.S. allows Seoul to enrich uranium and nuclear fuel processing go unnoticed.
In its meeting yesterday with Secretary of State John Kerry, Yun asked expedite the review of a civil nuclear cooperation agreement dating from 1974 bilateral.
"Definitely going to be controversial, but both countries have more to lose than gain if not reach an agreement and not yield in their initial positions," he said today in an interview with Efe nuclear policy expert at the Heritage Foundation, Jack Spencer .
That agreement, which expires in 2014, prohibits South Korea enriching uranium and nuclear fuel processing, technologies Seoul now considered vital to improve the efficiency of its twenty reactors.
The move to include South Korea in the short list of countries that enrich or reprocess radioactive material could be ready to be announced in early May, when it is expected the Washington view of the brand new South Korean president, Park Geun-hye.
U.S. presses Seoul to give the nod and help to enrich uranium at low concentrations and reprocess used nuclear fuel, something the Obama administration wants to carry out with great caution.
According to experts, mastering enrichment technology and nuclear reprocessing civilian targets is not far from that required to produce nuclear weapons, which could give wings to Pyongyang to continue with its nuclear program despite criticism and calls for calm of the international community.
According to Spencer, Washington prefers not to allow Seoul enriching uranium at the moment, but to process its nuclear fuel through a technique called "pyroprocessing" which would allow treat their radioactive waste safely use that resulting into weapons.
Meanwhile, South Korea will continue to rely on imports of enriched uranium for energy production, which in a quarter from the United States.
As part of the strategic alliance between Seoul and Washington, derived from the Korean War (1950-1953), South Korea stepped down in 1992 to obtain nuclear weapons, but in the 70 secret military research conducted for this purpose.
Washington does not want a nuclear escalation into a region as unstable as the Korean Peninsula and in full diplomatic offensive to Iran to abandon its nuclear enrichment program, which Tehran says is for peaceful purposes.
This time, once agreed the revision of civil nuclear cooperation agreement with the U.S., South Korea would commit to receive regular visits by inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Currently France, Germany, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States, Japan, Russia, China, Brazil and Iran used commercial technology uranium enrichment. Only Japan, Russia, UK and France reprocess spent fuel in power.
India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea these operations outside the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
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