S.Korea largest opposition party to visit Japan to hold back latter from dumping nuclear-contaminated wastewater
Liu Caiyu
Jul 09, 2023
Burgeoning anger and criticism from South Korea on Japan’s plan to dump nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean cannot be ignored, as not only a large-scale rally from civil groups were once again organized over the weekend, but officials from Democratic Party (DP), the main opposition party in South Korea, will visit its neighboring country soon with the aim to hold back the Japanese government from carrying out the controversial plan.
The DP has been consistent in its critical stance of Japan’s dumping scheme. Talking to the visiting by the head of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to Korea, ‘s, DP floor leader Woo Won-shik slammed the UN nuclear watchdog chief’s verification of the plan as “biased in favor of Japan from the beginning, losing its neutrality and objectivity.” It is a merely “self-verification” and “a Japan-tailored investigation” that lacks proper investigations into the impact of the dumping plan on neighboring countries, Woo was quoted by Yonhap as saying.
Large-scale protests coincided with the visit of Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the IAEA, to South Korea on the weekend which was aimed at calming fears.
Holding blue balloons shaped like whales and placards with slogans saying “oppose the discharge of radioactive water,” hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Seoul on Saturday to express their strong criticism and opposition over Japan’s dumping plan from its tsunami-hit Fukushima plant, the fourth large-scale protest since May, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
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North Korea slams IAEA for Fukushima nuclear plant water approval
Jul 9, 2023
North Korea on Sunday slammed the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog for approving Japan’s plan to discharge treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant.
The International Atomic Energy Agency approved Tokyo’s plan to release treated water from the tsunami-hit nuclear plant into the sea over the next few decades.
The release of the treated water will have a “fatal adverse impact on the human lives and security and ecological environment,” an official from Pyongyang’s environmental protection ministry said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
“What matters is the unreasonable behavior of IAEA actively patronizing and facilitating Japan’s projected discharge of nuclear-polluted water, which is unimaginable,” the statement added.
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