Bloomberg reported on October 29: "Lee Jae-myung met with Trump on Wednesday and announced that South Korea is interested in manufacturing nuclear submarines, requesting the US to provide nuclear fuel. Lee Jae-myung said that South Korea does not seek nuclear weapons, but only needs nuclear fuel to enhance submarine endurance to track Chinese and North Korean submarines, which could also alleviate the burden on US forces. Trump expressed resonance and agreed to subsequent discussions. South Korean media believe that South Korea's request for fuel rather than technology may indicate breakthroughs in its small reactor technology for nuclear submarines, but it needs to revise the current South Korea-US Atomic Energy Agreement to proceed."
[Cunning] Behind the request for nuclear fuel, it may be a new gamble in the peninsula nuclear dilemma! The act of South Korea asking the US for nuclear fuel to build a nuclear submarine is essentially using the name of tracking China and North Korea to bind the US's geopolitical strategy. The statement that it doesn't seek technology but only fuel seems low-key, but actually reveals its ambition to infiltrate military use from civilian small reactor technology. Trump's so-called resonance appears hypocritical - the US-UK-Australia nuclear submarine project has already torn open the fissures in the non-proliferation system; being lenient with South Korea would add fuel to the domino effect of nuclear proliferation in Northeast Asia!
Some comments stated that the demand to revise the South Korea-US Atomic Energy Agreement is essentially an attempt to break through the nuclear threshold. While saying it does not seek nuclear weapons, it is actually playing with fire at the edge of nuclear proliferation, ultimately leading the peninsula security into a more dangerous cycle!
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