Song Sang-ho, Asia News Network (The Korea Herald) | Tue, 05/15/2012 12:19 PM ...
Myanmarese President Thein Sein said Monday the country had
given up its plan to develop nuclear programs in cooperation with Russia
in the mid-2000s.
He told visiting Korean President Lee
Myung-bak that Russia offered to build two 10 megawatt nuclear reactors
for civilian, not military, use.
But the country’s military junta
did not pushed the project due to its inability to manage it, he was
quoted as saying by Lee’s security aide Kim Tae-hyo.
In 2007,
Russia's atomic energy agency and Myanmar signed a deal to build nuclear
research reactor. Reports said reactors would use low enriched uranium
consisting of less than 20 percent uranium-235.
The two leaders also discussed Myanmar’s alleged military cooperation with Pyongyang.
The
defector, whose identity was withheld, has served his five-year prison
term here for illegal entry into the country since March 2010.
Most
defectors from the repressive state have made their way into South
Korea after crossing the border into China and moving into a third
country such as Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia.
The two leaders also discussed Myanmar’s alleged military cooperation with Pyongyang.
Thein
Sein said that his country has never cooperated with North Korea in
terms of nuclear programs, and that Myanmar will abide by the U.N.
Security Council resolution 1874 banning Pyongyang’s long-range rocket
launch.
Lee also pledged to increase South Korea’s level of
assistance to Myanmar and share South Korea’s development experience.
The leaders also agreed to expand bilateral cooperation in energy,
resource development and construction of infrastructure.
To
deepen the countries’ friendship, the leaders agreed to increase
people-to-people exchanges and cooperation in areas of sports and
culture.
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