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North Korea: Officials Visit South Korean Nuclear Facilities A delegation of 20 North Korean officials arrived in South Korea yesterday to begin a two-week visit to observe South Korean nuclear power plants, South Korean officials said. The group included officials involved in the construction of two light-water nuclear reactors in North Korea (see GSN, Dec. 11). “The North Koreans are scheduled to look at nuclear power stations which have light-water reactors and plants that are producing parts to be used in the North Korean reactor construction,” said an official for the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization. KEDO is an international consortium that helps build the reactors in exchange for freezing North Korea’s nuclear weapons program (Korea Herald, Dec. 17). The North Korean delegation is scheduled to visit nuclear power plants in Ulchin on the east coast and Kori on the southeast coast, and Doosan Heavy Industries Company on the south coast, where reactors for the North Korean plants are under construction, according to the Associated Press. KEDO is responsible for training hundreds of North Koreans to operate the two reactors once they are installed in North Korea. In addition to this month’s delegates, the organization expects to train 290 more North Koreans in South Korea by the end of next year (Associated Press/South China Morning Post, Dec. 17). “It is the first time for North Korea to get access to the facilities,” said a senior KEDO official, according to Agence France-Presse (Jun Kwan-Woo, Agence France-Presse, Dec. 17). North Korean officials visited nuclear power plants in Spain and Sweden last month (Korea Herald, Dec. 18).
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