Exploring the Issue of Peaceful Nuclear Sovereignty- ROK

[R_Bert]

Your daily snewz  :ph34r:  -

 

From the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - South Korea's Search for Nuclear Sovereignty

 

SO - more stuff than you will ever want to know about nuclear non-proliferation, using Republic of Korea as an example.  It is quite an interesting (and quite provocative....) read for us in the non-proliferation industry -

 

http://nbr.org/publications/element.aspx?id=797

 

 

Toby Dalton used to run the US nuclear security program.

 

 

BTW,

 

Nuclear Sovereignty is the idea of a state producing nuclear weapons (USA, Britain, France, Russia, and China per NPT Treaty). 

 

PEACEFUL Nuclear Sovereignty is everything / everyone else, including uranium enrichment and spent-fuel reprocessing (and a state's right to conduct...or not.... these activities).  

 

Enrichment and reprocessing are the larger sticking points from a NPT perspective regarding a NON-weapons state (one who has signed the NPT). These two are key to developing a nuclear weapons capability.

 

What is applied to ROK  under this bilateral agreement will have nuclear security implications world-wide (including Iran & other rogue states). So, these negotiations are worth watching in the future.