South Korean Nuclear History
A collection of primary source documents on South Korea's efforts to develop a domestic nuclear program for both energy and defense purposes in the 1970s.
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February 23, 1979
Report, Embassy of Hungary in North Korea to the Hungarian Foreign Ministry
The Hungarian Ambassador in North Korea reports on the construction of the Kori Nuclear Power Plant in South Korea, highlighting that South Korea's projected power output would eventually surpass North Korea's by three-fold. As a result, North Korea was anxious to build its own nuclear power plant and perhaps even an atomic bomb.