South Korea to Aid Indonesia’s Nuclear Ambitions

Looks like South Korea is willing to pull out all the stops including giving nuclear power to Indonesia in order to gain support for Minister Ban’s UN Secretary General bid:

South Korea, one of the world’s biggest oil and liquefied natural gas importers, wants to help Indonesia develop nuclear power, South Korea’s Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon said on Monday.

“We hope that both Indonesia and Korea will be able to conclude a nuclear energy cooperation agreement as soon as possible,” Ban told a joint news conference with Indonesia’s’s Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda.

“We are one of the countries with high tech technology and know-how in this area,” he added.

Nuclear power plays an important role in providing an alternative source of energy in South Korea, which imports all of its oil and liquefied gas.

I’m curious to see what Washington reactions to this news will be because if these nuclear reactors are constructed that would mean that Indonesia is only one coup away from giving nuclear technology maybe to people the US government would rather not have access too. Hopefully the US has learned something from Pakistan and their scientists giving nuclear secrets to scores of governments including North Korea who would not have had that information otherwise.