In South Korea on Tuesday, the United States and South Korea resumed talks about whether South Korea should be able to enrich their country with uranium and reprocess spent nuclear fuel. At the discussion, South Korea wanted to rewrite the 1974 treaty with the United States. This treaty was an agreement that South Korea would refrain using those types of technologies that can be used to create fuel for nuclear power plants, and to also make nuclear weapons. Talks of rewriting the treaty began a year ago.
I think what the United States is really worrying about here, is the fear that once South Korea touches trying to work with fuel for nuclear power plants, they country will delve deeper into trying to create nuclear weapons just like North Korea.
William Toby, a senior at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University states that "The United States opposes the spread of enrichment and reprocessing even to South Korea, because it wants to set an absolute standard to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation". Truly a scary thought. Just think that North Korea having power in Nuclear fuel, and now South Korea is wanting to dip a tiny bit into Nuclear fuel is scarier. Yes, South Korea doesn't want to make any Nuclear weapons, but the act of having those materials in the country is just a scary thought.
사랑,
Tai Le
I think what the United States is really worrying about here, is the fear that once South Korea touches trying to work with fuel for nuclear power plants, they country will delve deeper into trying to create nuclear weapons just like North Korea.
William Toby, a senior at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University states that "The United States opposes the spread of enrichment and reprocessing even to South Korea, because it wants to set an absolute standard to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation". Truly a scary thought. Just think that North Korea having power in Nuclear fuel, and now South Korea is wanting to dip a tiny bit into Nuclear fuel is scarier. Yes, South Korea doesn't want to make any Nuclear weapons, but the act of having those materials in the country is just a scary thought.
사랑,
Tai Le
- U.S. and South Korea Renew Talks on Nuclear Technology
