![]() ![]() Preventing a South Korean nuclear breakout would require “early cooperation” with allied nuclear suppliers and some use of U.S. ![]() According to the special report, If the South went ahead with a weapons program, it would “have a deeply unsettling impact on regional stability” and on U.S. Kissinger learned that the ROK was negotiating with France to purchase a chemical separation plant, which could be used to produce plutonium from spent reactor fuel. intelligence originally estimated that the Republic of Korea (ROK) could produce a nuclear device by 1980. ![]() According to a special report prepared for Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, published here by the National Security Archive and the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project for the first time, General Park (father of the recently impeached South Korean president) had told Korean journalists that he had directed scientists to build atomic bombs by 1977 and had also informed an industrial conference that he wanted long-range missiles for retaliation against North Korean provocations. The Ford administration first received intelligence about South Korean nuclear developments in the fall of 1974. The Gerald Ford administration worried about a nuclear threat emerging in the Korean peninsula in the mid-1970s – not from the North, but the South, where the General Park Chung-hee dictatorship had plans to produce fissile material for supporting a nuclear weapons capability. * * * * * The United States and South Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Program, 1974-1976, effort to keep an ally from engaging in destabilizing proliferation activity in one of the world’s enduring trouble spots. They offer an account of the first stages of what became a successful U.S. policy toward South Korea’s atomic weapons program in the mid-1970s, is based on a wide variety of declassified sources, including records released through mandatory declassification review. Today’s posting, the first of two on U.S. The Ford administration accumulated other evidence that raised worries about proliferation and regional instability. Washington, D.C., Ma– President Park Chung-hee reportedly instructed South Korean scientists to build nuclear bombs by 1977, according to a secret report to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University. FOIA Advisory Committee Oversight Reports. ![]()
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