SOUTH KOREA: SECRETARY GENERAL OF INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (IAEA) MOHAMED ELBARADEI MEETS WITH NATIONAL SECURITY CHIEF CHUNG DONG-YOUNG
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SOUTH KOREA: SECRETARY GENERAL OF INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (IAEA) MOHAMED ELBARADEI MEETS WITH NATIONAL SECURITY CHIEF CHUNG DONG-YOUNG
- Title: SOUTH KOREA: SECRETARY GENERAL OF INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (IAEA) MOHAMED ELBARADEI MEETS WITH NATIONAL SECURITY CHIEF CHUNG DONG-YOUNG
- Date: 6th October 2004
- Summary: (W3) SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (OCTOBER 5, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. MV IAEA SECRETARY GENERAL MOHAMED ELBARADEI (LEFT) AND SOUTH KOREA'S NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL CHIEF/UNIFICATION MINISTER CHUNG DONG-YOUNG (RIGHT); MV ELBARADEI AND CHUNG 0.12 2. (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) SOUTH KOREA'S NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL CHIEF/UNIFICATION MINISTER CHUNG DONG-YOUNG SAYING: "The South Korean government will kick off a nuclear technology regulation centre system in the middle of October." 0.25 3. MV ELBARADEI AND CHUNG SHAKE HANDS 0.31 4. SLV / MV FORMER SOUTH KOREAN KIM DAE-JUNG AT PUGWASH CONFERENCE 0.43 5. (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) FORMER SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT KIM DAE-JUNG SAYING: "North Korea's development of nuclear weapons is a violation against this agreement and thus should be given up." 0.50 6. AUDIENCE 0.57 7. (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) KIM DAE-JUNG SAYING: "We must discourage North Korea from being obsessed with its relations with the United States and feeling the need to develop weapons of mass destruction such as nuclear weapons." 1.06 8. CAMERA OPERATORS 1.12 9. SLV U.S. AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH KOREA CHRISTOPHER HILL AT PODIUM 1.24 10. (SOUNDBITE) (English) HILL SAYING: "I think they need to understand that whoever is elected president, there is absolutely no tolerance for dealing with a country that maintains nuclear weapons programmes. So I would hope that they would not waste more time and would figure out a way to negotiate it. Now if they, now I can imagine even if they make that strategic decision, the negotiations would be long and hard but I, we should really keep the focus on their need to make a decision and not the format we've chosen." 2.02 11. AUDIENCE 2.08 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
- Country: South Korea
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- Story Text: Secretary General of the IAEA meets with South
Korean national security chief.
Top international nuclear regulator Mohamed
ElBaradei continued to meet with top South Korean officials
on Tuesday (October 5) to discuss a solution to Seoul's
nuclear activities during his visit to South Korea.
South Korea revealed last month that its scientists
conducted, without government approval or knowledge, tests
to enrich uranium four years ago and to separate plutonium
in 1982.
South Korea's National Security Council chief Chung
Dong-young stressed the administration's commitment to the
peaceful use of nuclear energy to ElBaradei and said a
nuclear technology watchdog would be established.
"The South Korean government will kick off a nuclear
technology regulation centre system in the middle of
October," Chung told ElBaradei during a meeting at the
central government complex in Seoul.
Chung is also the country's unification minister.
Earlier this week, ElBaradei met with South Korea's
Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon and Prime Minister Lee
Hae-chan, who both reassured ElBaradei that South Korea was
committed to cooperate with the IAEA in proving its adherence to
international nuclear standards.
A third group of IAEA inspectors is scheduled to visit
South Korea later this month for additional work before the
agency reports to its board of governors in November.
Meanwhile, Pyongyang has accused the South of arming
itself with nuclear weapons and said the recently disclosed
experiments were just a small part of a government-run
programme.
Yet former President Kim Dae-jung said on Tuesday he
believed South Korea would comply with international
nuclear standards and insisted that Pyongyang should abide
by the Joint Declaration on the De-nuclearization of the
Korean Peninsula in 1992.
"North Korea's development of nuclear weapons is a
violation against this agreement and thus should be given
up," the former president and Nobel Peace prize winner said
during the Pugwash Conference on science and world affairs
in Seoul.
Former President Kim added that the U.S. should help
North Korea join the international community and guarantee
its security.
We must discourage North Korea from being obsessed with
its relations with the United States and feeling the need
to develop weapons of mass destruction such as nuclear
weapons," Kim said.
A key policy during Kim's administration was the
"Sunshine Policy," which sought for a warmer and friendlier
inter-Korean diplomacy.
North Korea has said it would not cooperate to
six-country nuclear disarmament talks with South Korea, the
United States, Japan, China and Russia until the South's
atomic experiments were fully dealt with.
Yet U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Christopher Hill
said North Korea should not wait till after the U.S.
presidential elections for a "better deal" in the six-way
talks and that it was the communist state's turn to act.
"I think they need to understand that whoever is
elected president, there is absolutely no tolerance for
dealing with a country that maintains nuclear weapons
programmes. So I would hope that they would not waste more
time and would figure out a way to negotiate it. Now if
they, now I can imagine even if they make that strategic
decision, the negotiations would be long and hard but I the,
we should really keep the focus on their need to make a
decision and not the format we've chosen," Hill told U.S.
businessmen during a luncheon in Seoul.
North Korea had accused the U.S. of applying a double
standard of nuclear tolerance in South and North Korea.
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