Park Chung Hee Nuclear Weapons

Declassified us embassy seoul cables related to nuclear proliferation during the park chung hee era show that far from making south korea more secure park s toying with the nuclear option made him an unpredictable and even dangerous client who needed restraint in the.

Park chung hee nuclear weapons. South korea decided to develop nuclear weapons and surface to surface missiles in the early 1970s. Park chung hee was a brute determined to stifle political freedom while focusing on economic development. The united states and south korea s nuclear weapons program 1974 1976 part i edited by william burr. But his desire for an rok nuclear weapon looks prescient.

A declassified 1978 cia report related to nuclear proliferation during the park chung hee era shows that far from making south korea more secure park s toying with the nuclear option made him an unpredictable and even dangerous client who needed restraint in the eyes of us. The authors review the declassified document south korea. The gerald ford administration worried about a nuclear threat emerging in the korean peninsula in the mid 1970s not from the north but the south where dictator general park chung hee dictatorship had plans to produce fissile material for supporting a nuclear weapons capability. Introduction peter hayes and chung in moon analyze park chung hee s failed 1972 1978 proliferation strategy aimed at obtaining the missile dual use technology and fissile material needed to develop a nuclear bomb and establish a south korean nuclear weapons program.

Nuclear developments and strategic decisionmaking issued in. Simultaneously increasing nationalism within the administration caused by its tumultuous relations with the united states further. The park chung hee administration caved to us pressure and formally renounced any future plans to acquire nuclear weapons with south korea s 1975 ratification of the nuclear non proliferation. Peter hayes chung in moon and scott bruce.

Park chung hee the cia and the bomb 17 october 2011. The park chung hee administration made the decision because of its concern about a complete withdrawal of us forces from korea following the nixon doctrine. Park chung hee the third president of south korea was assassinated on october 26 1979 during a dinner at the korean central intelligence agency kcia safehouse inside the blue house presidential compound in jongno district seoul south korea. Park chung hee 30 september 1917 in gumi unterprovinz keishō hokudō provinz chōsen damaliges japanisches kaiserreich heutiges südkorea.

After south vietnam had fallen in april 1975 then south korean president park chung hee first mentioned its nuclear weapons aspiration during the press conference on 12 june 1975. Peter hayes rmit and chung in moon yonsei university. Kim jae gyu the director of the kcia and the president s security chief was responsible for the assassination. Oktober 1979 in seoul war ein südkoreanischer militär politiker und von 1961 bis 1979 präsident der republik korea er gilt als eine der kontroversesten persönlichkeiten in der südkoreanischen geschichte.