The Foreign Ministry of South Korea has decided to deny the statements that the United States Department of Energy (DOE) described the country as “sensitive” due to the increase in its independent nuclear armament. In fact, an American official, It is being investigated for allegedly passing nuclear reactor diagrams to the authorities of the Asian country.
According to the media a legislator of the South Korean Democratic Party, Wi sung-lacwhich has dedicated decades to American diplomacy and nuclear issues in this ministry, has emphasized the importance of not ignoring the essence of the case. “The United States is not going to designate South Korea as a ‘sensitive country’ based solely on an information filtration in a laboratory”has asserted in a telephone interview with the Digital.
“The US government would not designate South Korea as a ‘sensitive country’ if you were not worried about nuclear weapons of the South Korean authorities,” insists the diplomat. “Normally, this type of incident would result in sanctions for the researcher or measures against the laboratory in question.”
In addition, remember that “we understand that this designation has to do with matters such as the filtration of software“In this sense, he affirms that” it is not only a security problem, and it has nothing to do with nuclear weapons requests, It is an attempt to manipulate the media and obscure the matter. “
According to the publication, the designation of South Korea as a sensitive country was repeated in the eighties. Sung-Lac explains that “it occurred in the context of nuclear weapons development attempts by the administration of former president Park Chung-Hee.”
This designation “does not have a significant impact on technological cooperation between South Korea and the United States.” Even so, between 2,000 and 3,000 South Korean workers of the institutes affiliated with the Department of Energy “They must submit previous reports, and obtain approval to execute their activities. “
“I hope Korea can persuade the United States to eliminate it from the list of sensitive countries through bilateral deliberations,” laments the South Korean politician in the middle. “The most important thing is to restore trust. We need to dissipate suspicions about the nuclear weapons of Korea, and the responsibility of this falls to the government and the ruling party, “concludes the publication.
