North Korea critical on Sunday to the International Atomic Energy Agency for ensuring the safety of Japan’s sea dumping of treated radioactive water from the disaster-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant, and reiterated its opposition to the dumping plan, according to media reports. states according to Kyodo News.
The planned water spill will have a “fatal adverse impact on human life and safety and the ecological environment,” according to statements by a senior official at the country’s Ministry of Land and Environmental Protection reported by the Central News Agency of Korea.
On Tuesday, the IAEA submitted to Japan its safety review of the planned water release, saying it is “consistent” with international safety standards and will have “negligible radiological impact on people and the environment” if carried out. just.
“What matters is the unreasonable behavior of the IAEA, which actively sponsors and facilitates Japan’s planned release of nuclear-contaminated water, something unimaginable,” the statement said.
The IAEA “is not a body to assess (the) environment,” the senior official said, noting that there is no provision or clause in international law that specifies that the nuclear watchdog has the right to allow a country or region dump “nuclear contaminated” water.
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Pyongyang also lashed out at the “typical expression of extreme double standards” by IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, stating that he has denounced the “exercise of the legitimate right” of the North to carry out nuclear programs while ignoring the “illegal act and little Japan’s ethical act of endangering the life and safety of mankind.”
The statement also referred to South Korean media reports that Japan offered 1 million euros ($1.1 million) to an IAEA staff member who participated in the inspection of the planned Fukushima water spill. so that Tokyo would have the opportunity to modify the final report.
IAEA submitted to Japan its safety review of the planned water release, saying it is “consistent” with international safety standards
The Japanese Foreign Ministry denied the media reports in late June, stating that it is “absolutely false that Japan made a political donation to the IAEA, that the conclusions of the IAEA review report were fixed from the beginning.”
Tokyo “firmly opposes the irresponsible spread of this type of false information,” the ministry stated in a statement on June 22.
