[KS] RE: Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 22, Issue 24

[Timothy Savage]

The Nuclear Threat Initiative has a database with profiles of the nuclear 
history of various countries. The South Korean profile can be found here:
http://nti.org/e_research/profiles/SKorea/index.html

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>On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:27:32 +0200, Balazs Szalontai <HPHSZB01 at phd.ceu.hu>
>wrote:
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> > Dear All,
> >
> > may I have a question about the South Korean nuclear program? In
> > Michael L. Siler's article, "U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy in the
> > Northeast Asian Region during the Cold War: The South Korean Case"
> > ("East Asia: An International Quarterly," Autumn/Winter 1998), there is
> > a reference to that
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> > "Having received substantial U.S. and Western nuclear reactor
> > technology and enriched uranium since the early 1960s, South Korea
> > willingly ratified the Partial Test Ban Treaty (1964)."
> >
> > When exactly did the U.S. start assisting South Korea in the field of
> > nuclear research and when did the construction of an experimental
> > nuclear reactor begin in the ROK? I know that in 1959 the U.S. signed an
> > agreement to assist South Vietnam in the field of nuclear research. In
> > 1958 Saigon established an Atomic Energy Office, in 1961 a nuclear
> > research center was established in Da Lat, and in 1963, just before the
> > fall of Ngo Dinh Diem, the construction of an experimental nuclear
> > reactor was completed in the RVN.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Balazs Szalontai
> >
> >
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