Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 16:28:31
 
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Jan 30, 1997 (UPI) - Kim Ha-chung, South Korean secretary
general for Asia and Pacific Affairs, said, trying to block
the shipment of nuclear waste from Taiwan to North Korea,
South Korea would be ready to risk losing any relations to
Taipei.

Jan 30, 1997 (Reuter) - Chinese Foreign Minister spokesman
Shen Guofang criticised the deal between North Korea and
Taiwan about the shipment of nuclear waste and said it would
be an attack by Taiwan against Chinas relations with
Pyongyang.

Jan 30, 1997 (Reuter) - Seven South Korean demonstrators, who
had protested against the shipment of nuclear waste from
Taiwan to North Korea, were deported from Taipei on Thursday,
after clashes with Taiwanese supporters of the deal.

Jan 30, 1997 (Reuter) - The arguments around the recently
disclosed Franco-German agreement about the role of french
nuclear weapons from December 9 continues. While Germen
Defense Minister Volker Ruehe said that ``France for the first
time has signed a document in which NATO's nuclear defense is
seen as the decisive element and the British and French
nuclear systems back this up,'' the French Foreign Ministry
spokesman Jacques Rummelhardt said France hadn't changed its
opinion but Germany would for the first time be willing to
discuss a Eurpean deterrence strategy.

Jan 31, 1997 (Reuter) - A delegation of anti nuclear activists
from South Korea, including four members of parliament,
arrived in Taipei on Friday while 10 protestors in Soul began
an ``indefinite hunger strike'' in front of the Taiwan trade
office. More than 100 demonstrators in Seol clashed with riot
policemen.

Jan 31, 1997 (UPI) - The Maine Yankee nuclear power plant will
stay shut down at least until mid-summer, due to repairs and
an analysis demanded by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The
plant was planned to re-open in mid-March.

Jan 31, 1997 (UPI) - The U.S. state of California accused the
federal gouvernment to transfer 1,000 acres of federal land
for the low-level nuclear waste dump site at Ward Valley. In
1993 the administration backed off from the transfer, claiming
more environmental to be necessary. According to federal law
the states must establish regional sites for its low-level
nuclear waste. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in
Washington D.C.

Feb 1, 1997 (Reuter) - Lien Chan, Taiwan Vice president and
premier, rejected protests against the transport of nuclear
waste to North Korea. ``As long as the deal complies with
international regulations and the shipment is legal and safe,
the government will not intervene,'' he said on Saturday.

Feb 2, 1997 (Reuter) - A South African navy ship is monitoring
the position of the British ship carrying nuclear waste from
France to Japan. ``She is to the south of Cape Agulhus and has
been keeping about 200 to 300 miles off the coast,'' navy
spokesman Stan Slogove said.