South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun has said that the U.S. and South Korea have agreed to discuss nuclear fuel reprocessing following a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung this week.
"We operate 26 nuclear power plants, buying and bringing in fuel for them every time. ... We have been feeling the necessity of being able to reprocess it and to make our own fuel through concentrates," Cho said in a live televised interview Thursday.
"In order to do this, cooperation with the U.S. is most important. We need to change the nuclear agreement, or use another method under the agreement (between the countries). So it is very meaningful that we decided to begin discussions in that direction."
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