South Korean Officials Predict IAEA Board of Governors Will Not Discuss Past Nuclear Work

Past South Korean nuclear experiments are not likely to be discussed at the next meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors, set to be held next week, South Korean Foreign Ministry officials said today (see GSN, Feb. 18).

Last fall, Seoul acknowledged having conducted undisclosed experiments involving plutonium in 1982 and uranium in 2000. The U.N. agency did not report South Korea to the U.N. Security Council, but rather issued a statement expressing concern over the experiments (Yonhap/BBC Monitoring, Feb. 23).

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