South Korea signed a cooperation agreement with Jordan to participate in Jordanian infrastructure projects including building nuclear power generators, state-run Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO) said on Monday.
Jordan plans to build several nuclear power plants to raise the portion of nuclear power to 30 percent of its total power generation by 2040.
The resource-scarce Middle Eastern country also plans to spend about $5 billion over the next decade to build a waterway between the Dead and the Red seas.
"The Jordanian government wished to cooperate with South Korea for the projects as (South Korean companies) have competitive skills in these areas," KEPCO said in a statement.
South Korea has around 20 nuclear power plants that account for about half of the country's power generation.
(Source: Reuters)
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Monday, December 1, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Senior SKorean official leaves for nuclear talks in US
A senior South Korean foreign ministry official left Wednesday for New York for talks with his US counterparts on North Korea's nuclear programme, officials said.
The foreign ministry said Hwang Joon-Kook, head of the North Korean nuclear issue bureau, would meet Sung Kim, director of the US State Department's Office of Korean Affairs, and other officials during his four-day trip to New York.
"The visit was made at the request of the US government," a ministry official told AFP.
The ministry declined to confirm a report by the South's Yonhap news agency that Hwang may meet Ri Gun, head of the American affairs bureau of the North's foreign ministry, to discuss ways to verify Pyongyang's recent nuclear claims.
Ri, who is in New York to attend an academic seminar, plans to meet US officials, Yonhap said.
"The US asked for consultations with us before and after the planned talks with North Korea," an unidentified official here was quoted as saying.
Washington last month removed North Korea from a list of state sponsors of terrorism saying Pyongyang had agreed to steps to verify its nuclear disarmament and pledged to resume disabling its atomic plants.
But nations involved in six-party talks have yet to endorse a protocol for the hardline communist country to fully verify its nuclear record.
(Source: AFP)
The foreign ministry said Hwang Joon-Kook, head of the North Korean nuclear issue bureau, would meet Sung Kim, director of the US State Department's Office of Korean Affairs, and other officials during his four-day trip to New York.
"The visit was made at the request of the US government," a ministry official told AFP.
The ministry declined to confirm a report by the South's Yonhap news agency that Hwang may meet Ri Gun, head of the American affairs bureau of the North's foreign ministry, to discuss ways to verify Pyongyang's recent nuclear claims.
Ri, who is in New York to attend an academic seminar, plans to meet US officials, Yonhap said.
"The US asked for consultations with us before and after the planned talks with North Korea," an unidentified official here was quoted as saying.
Washington last month removed North Korea from a list of state sponsors of terrorism saying Pyongyang had agreed to steps to verify its nuclear disarmament and pledged to resume disabling its atomic plants.
But nations involved in six-party talks have yet to endorse a protocol for the hardline communist country to fully verify its nuclear record.
(Source: AFP)
Friday, October 24, 2008
Poland talks with South Korea about nuclear plants
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said on Friday that Poland had asked South Korea for help in building its first nuclear power plants by 2012, but Warsaw later said it had not mentioned a firm deadline.
Following a meeting with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Lee said in a statement that Warsaw had asked for Seoul's "strong interest and participation" in constructing two or three nuclear power plants as well as a 440 million euro ($570 million) liquified natural gas project.
The two leaders are in Beijing for the Asia-Europe meeting.
Slawomir Nowak, head of the Polish Prime Minister's office, later told Reuters: "Yes, we did talk nuclear power plants over with South Korea as it is one of the most experienced countries when it comes to nuclear energy, and we are willing to cooperate.
"However, we did not mention any particular deadline. We only said we were hopeful to make a final decision on such a plant and start construction works in 2012."
Poland, the European Union's largest ex-communist member, derives more than 90 percent of its electricity from coal. It has no nuclear power plants and virtually no renewable energy resources.
Nuclear power represents 40 percent of power generation in South Korea, which also has been building six nuclear power generation plants.
South Korea has been trying to sell its nuclear power generation techniques for years, but has not yet been successful.
One nuclear plant would cost $1 billion-$2 billion to build, with France, Canada, the United States and Russia among countries that are capable of selling nuclear power plant techniques.
(Source: Guardian.co.uk)
Following a meeting with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Lee said in a statement that Warsaw had asked for Seoul's "strong interest and participation" in constructing two or three nuclear power plants as well as a 440 million euro ($570 million) liquified natural gas project.
The two leaders are in Beijing for the Asia-Europe meeting.
Slawomir Nowak, head of the Polish Prime Minister's office, later told Reuters: "Yes, we did talk nuclear power plants over with South Korea as it is one of the most experienced countries when it comes to nuclear energy, and we are willing to cooperate.
"However, we did not mention any particular deadline. We only said we were hopeful to make a final decision on such a plant and start construction works in 2012."
Poland, the European Union's largest ex-communist member, derives more than 90 percent of its electricity from coal. It has no nuclear power plants and virtually no renewable energy resources.
Nuclear power represents 40 percent of power generation in South Korea, which also has been building six nuclear power generation plants.
South Korea has been trying to sell its nuclear power generation techniques for years, but has not yet been successful.
One nuclear plant would cost $1 billion-$2 billion to build, with France, Canada, the United States and Russia among countries that are capable of selling nuclear power plant techniques.
(Source: Guardian.co.uk)
Monday, September 29, 2008
S. Korean leader arrives in Russia for nuclear, gas talks
South Korea's president arrived in Moscow on Sunday for a three-day visit expected to focus on the international standoff over North Korea's nuclear programme and energy ties.
South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak landed at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport at 1:30 pm (0930 GMT).
Lee is scheduled to meet his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday, news agencies reported earlier, citing the South Korean embassy in Moscow.
His visit comes days after the UN's atomic energy watchdog said Pyongyang was about to restart a nuclear reprocessing plant and Seoul's foreign minister warned that six-party talks aimed at disarming North Korea were near breakdown.
"The future of the six-party talks will be discussed" at Lee's meetings with Russian officials, ambassador Lee Kyu-Hyung was quoted as saying in Moscow.
Lee also hopes to discuss building a gas pipeline linking Russia to South Korea, the ambassador said.
A pipeline delivering Russian gas to South Korea would have to pass through the communist North, which tested an atomic weapon in 2006.
Encouraged by the international community, Pyongyang began disabling its Yongbyon reactor last November, but halted work last month to protest a US refusal to drop it from a blacklist of countries supporting terrorism.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday that North Korea had told the agency that it would restart nuclear reprocessing at Yongbyon, which is used to make weapons-grade material.
Russia -- along with South Korea, the United States, China and Japan -- is one of the five countries negotiating with Pyongyang to achieve nuclear disarmament in exchange for economic aid.
(Source: AFP)
South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak landed at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport at 1:30 pm (0930 GMT).
Lee is scheduled to meet his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday, news agencies reported earlier, citing the South Korean embassy in Moscow.
His visit comes days after the UN's atomic energy watchdog said Pyongyang was about to restart a nuclear reprocessing plant and Seoul's foreign minister warned that six-party talks aimed at disarming North Korea were near breakdown.
"The future of the six-party talks will be discussed" at Lee's meetings with Russian officials, ambassador Lee Kyu-Hyung was quoted as saying in Moscow.
Lee also hopes to discuss building a gas pipeline linking Russia to South Korea, the ambassador said.
A pipeline delivering Russian gas to South Korea would have to pass through the communist North, which tested an atomic weapon in 2006.
Encouraged by the international community, Pyongyang began disabling its Yongbyon reactor last November, but halted work last month to protest a US refusal to drop it from a blacklist of countries supporting terrorism.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday that North Korea had told the agency that it would restart nuclear reprocessing at Yongbyon, which is used to make weapons-grade material.
Russia -- along with South Korea, the United States, China and Japan -- is one of the five countries negotiating with Pyongyang to achieve nuclear disarmament in exchange for economic aid.
(Source: AFP)
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