Strengthening the ROK-US Nuclear Partnership
Miles A. Pomper, Toby Dalton, Scott Snyder, and Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress | James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Over the last forty years, South Korea (hereafter ROK or Korea) and the United States have become essential partners on nuclear matters. The United States provided the technology and knowhow necessary for Korea to establish a nuclear sector. Koreans mastered that technology and have worked to improve on it, with the twin goals of expanding their country’s energy independence and becoming a leading exporter of nuclear power production facilities.
South Korea’s Nuclear Energy Future
Toby Dalton and Minkyeong Cha | Diplomat
In recent weeks, nuclear debates in South Korea centered on North Korea’s nuclear weapons tests and whether Seoul should develop its own nuclear weapons in response. But there is another nuclear issue percolating under the surface that is perhaps more critical to South Korea’s future: hollowing support for nuclear power.
U.S. Says No Talks With N. Korea Without Focus on Denuclearization
Yonhap News
The United States won't engage in talks with North Korea unless the discussions are focused on denuclearization, a senior U.S. official said Monday. The official gave the comment to Yonhap News Agency after a newspaper report that the U.S. had agreed to hold peace treaty talks with Pyongyang on condition that the discussions also deal with denuclearization.
Oldies but Goodies: Russia Preps Crews for ‘Doomsday Nuke Trains’
Sputnik News
Russia will soon start training crews for its feared missile trains, Echo Moskvy Radio reported citing the head of the Strategic Missile Forces’ military education department, Viktor Nesterov. Colonel Nesterov said that in 2020 Russia’s armed forces will receive a new generation of ICBM-launching trains.
India’s First Nuclear Submarine INS Arihant Ready for Operations, Passes Deep Sea Tests
Manu Pubby | Economic Times
India's first nuclear armed submarine is now ready for full fledged operations, having passed several deep sea diving drills as well as weapons launch tests over the past five months and a formal induction into the naval fleet is only a political call away.
Hungary Further Develops Nuclear Cooperation With Iran
World Nuclear News
Hungary has agreed to further cooperation with Iran on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, its minister of foreign affairs and trade, Péter Szijjártó, announced last week. Speaking to reporters in Budapest, following talks between Hungarian ministers and Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Szijjártó said the two countries would "continue and expand" the training of Iranian nuclear experts as well as establish research and scientific cooperation in the use of nuclear energy.