Margaret P Grafeld Declassified Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 04 MAY 2006 Message Text SECRET PAGEOI SEOUL00552 250418Z 63 ACTION SS-25 INFO OCT-OI ISO-OO SSO-OO NSCE-OO ISO W 025033 o 250338Z JAN 76 FM AMEMBASSY SEOUL TO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 5133 INFO AMEMBASSY OTTAWA NIACT IMMEDIATE AMEMBASSY PARIS IMMEDIATE AMEMBASSY TOKYO IMMEDIATE USMISSION USUN NEW YORK IMMEDIATE USMISSION IAEA VIENNA IMMEDIATE SEC RET SEOUL 0552 EXDIS DEPT PASS CINCPAC FOR ASST SECY HABIB AND AMB SNEIDER CINCPAC HANDLE AS SPECAT EXCLUSIVE E O 11652 XGDS-3 TAGS MNUC PARM KS FR CA SUBJECT KOREAN NUCLEAR REPROCESSING CANADIAN REACTOR SALE REF SEOUL 0551 I CANADIAN AMBASSADOR STILES SAYS KOREAN AND CANADIAN GOVERNMENTS HAVE REACHED AGREEMENT ON FOLLOWING LANGUAGE PROPOSED BY CANADA AS BASIS FOR SIGNING BILATERAN GOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT REGARDING SALE OF CANDU REACTOR STILES SAYS SIGNING CEREMONY WILL TAKE PLACE SEOUL AT 1400 HOURS JANUARY 26 MIDNIGHT JANUARY 25 EST 2 TEXT OF AGREED LANGUAGE IS AS FOLLOWS BEGIN TEXT CANADIAN CABINET DECIDED ON JANUARY 22 1976 THAT CANADIAN SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS SHOULD SECRET SECRET PAGE 02 SEOUL 00552 250418Z AUTHORIZE SIGNATURE OF BILATERAL NUCLEAR CO-OPERATION AGREEMENT Margaret P Grafeld Declassified Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 04 MAY 2006 Margaret P Grafeld Declassified Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 04 MAY 2006 WITH THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA BEFORE JANUARY 26 PROVIDED THAT THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA CONCURS WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA STATING PUBLICLY THAT IT HAS THE ASSURANCE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA THAT I IT IS NOT PURSUING ACQUIsmON OF THE REPROCESSING FACILITY AND 2 THE PROJECTED REPROCESSING FACILITY HAS BEEN SHELYEO INDEFINITELY WHICH IS UNDERSTOOD TO MEAN FOR A LENGTHY PERIOD OF TIME AT LEAST UNTIL AFTER THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA'S NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE UNITEO STATES ON FURTHER NUCLEAR CO-OPERATION ARE RESOLVED END TEXT 3 STILES SAYS HE AND FONMIN PAK HAVE AGREED THERE WILL BE NO PUBLICITY IN SEOUL WHEN AGREEMENT SIGNED CANADIAN FONMIN NOW IN BRUSSELS IS EXPECTED TO BE AVAILABLE IN OTTAWA ON JANUARY 29 OR JAIo 'UARY 30 TO ANSWER IIo TERPELLATlONS IN COMMONS HE INTENDS BASE REPLIES ON TEXT CONTAINED ABOVE IN MEANTIME ACTING FONMIN WILL REPLY TO ANY QUERIES THAT IT NOT APPROPRIATE IN VIEW STATUS DISCUSSIONS TO COMMENT ON THIS SUBJECT 4 STILES SAYS THAT PARTIES HAVE AGREED THAT THE REPROCESSING FACILITY REFERRED TO IN TEXT MEANS REPROCESSING FACILITY CONTRACTED FOR WITH FRENCH THIS UNDERSTANDING WAS APPARENTLY LAST HURDLE TO BE OVERCOME IN ROKICANADA DISCUSSIONS WHEN KOREANS SUGGESTED THIS UNDERSTANDING CANADIANS BECAME SUSPICIOUS THAT THEY MIGHT BE INTENDING TO PURCHASE REPROCESSING FACILITY FROM SOME COUNTRY OTHER THAN FRENCE AND HAD TO BE SATISFIED ON THIS POINT S CHARGE COMMENTED THAT LAST SENTENCE OF AGREED ROKICANADA LANGUAGE APPEARED TO PLACE HEAVY BURDEN ON EARLY FAVORABLE OUTCOME OF ROKIUS DISCUSSIONS ON THIS SUBJECT HE REMINDED STILES THAT WE NOT YET CERTAIN OF THAT OUTCOME SAID THAT KOREANS WELL AWARE THAT DISCUSSIONS WITH US COULD NOT BE PROTRACTED AND ASKED WHAT CANADIAN PosmON WOULD BE IF USIROK DISCUSSIONS PROVED INCONCLUSIVE STILES SAID GOC HAD DECIDED SECRET SECRET PAGE 03 SEOUL 00552 2S0418Z TO GAMBLE ON FAVORABLE OUTCOME WHICH HE THOUGHT COULD NOT FAIL IF US HELD TO PosmONS OF WHICH GOC AWARE 6 CHARGE HAD INFORMED STILES IN GENERAL TERMS OF CONTENTS OF USIROK RECORD OF DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING WHICH HE HAS ALSO HAD SOME INFO FROM KOREANS AND HAS WARNED HIM THAT WE DO NOT CONSIDER THESE DISCUSSIONS AS NEGOTIATIONS LEADING TO INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT CHARGE ALSO SUGGESTED THAT HE Margaret P Grafeld Declassified Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 04 MAY 2006 Margaret P Grafeld Declassified Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 04 MAY 2006 INFORM OITAWATHAT IT SHOULD STAY IN VERY CLOSE TOUCH WITH WASHINGTON DURING FORTHCOMING WEEK TO ENSURE THAT WHEN FONMIN DOES ANSWER lNTERPELLATIONS HE FULLY INFORMED OF STATE OF PLAY OF USIROK DISCUSSIONS AND WASHINGTON AITITUDE TOWARD WHAT MIGHT APPROPRIATEL Y BE SAID AT THAT TIME WHICH WOULD NOT ENDANGER US EFFORTS ERICSON SECRET Margaret P Grafeld Declassified Released US Department of State EO Systematic Review 04 MAY 2006                     National Security Archive    Suite 701  Gelman Library  The George Washington University    2130 H Street  NW  Washington  D C  20037    Phone  202 994‐7000  Fax  202 994‐7005  nsarchiv@gwu edu