Members of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership can further improve the alignment of operational guidelines across key sectors such as competition policy and trade in services to elevate mutual openness, said trade experts and foreign scholars on Sunday.
Japan ambassador says Korea can take part in IAEA monitoring team for Fukushima water release
Posted : 2021-04-19 15:20
Updated : 2021-04-19 16:59
Koichi Aiboshi, left, at Cheong Wa Dae, April 14, 2021, for a ceremony that welcomed him as a new Japanese Ambassador to Seoul / Korea Times file
Japanese Ambassador Koichi Aiboshi said Monday that he thinks South Korean experts can be part of a U.N. nuclear watchdog-led monitoring team for his country s planned release of radioactive water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.
South Korea has expressed concerns about potential health risks over Japan s plan to release over 1.2 million tons of Fukushima s contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean and said it wants to take part in safety verification efforts by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
(LEAD) Japan ambassador says S. Korea can take part in IAEA monitoring team for Fukushima water release April 19, 2021
Japanese Ambassador Koichi Aiboshi said Monday that he thinks South Korean experts can be part of a U.N. nuclear watchdog-led monitoring team for his country’s planned release of radioactive water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.
South Korea has expressed concerns about potential health risks over Japan’s plan to release over 1.2 million tons of Fukushima’s contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean and said it wants to take part in safety verification efforts by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).