Russian official
moots nuclear power station for North Korea
Sep 19, 2005 - BBC Monitoring Newsfile
Excerpt from report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS
Moscow, 19 September: The head of Rosatom [Federal Agency for Atomic
Energy], Aleksandr Rumyantsev, has said that Russia could build a
nuclear power station in North Korea. "Russia is always ready to join in
a project, and we have both the potential and the desire for that," he
said in an exclusive interview to ITAR-TASS.
Rumyantsev welcomed the statement adopted in Beijing today on the
results of the six-party talks. "I am always in favour of diplomatic
means of finding solutions at the six-party talks," he said.
Under the document adopted in Beijing, North Korea committed itself
to renouncing nuclear weapons and rapidly returning to the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty regime. Other parties to the consultations -
Russia, the USA, Japan, China and the Republic of Korea - announced
their "intention to give North Korea assistance in power engineering".
The Rosatom head thinks that "assistance in power engineering" to
North Korea could be building a nuclear power station. "We build nuclear
stations abroad, and Russia could organize the same sort of project in
the DPRK."
At the same time, he pointed out that to start with it is necessary
to wait for a decision by the parties to the consultations as to exactly
what "assistance in power engineering" consists of.
[Passage omitted: Rumyantsev said he could not comment on technical
aspects of a possible project since Russia has not cooperated with North
Korea for a decade]
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