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Japan has offered the US its best nuclear-cleanup robots – designed for Fukushima – for use in dismantling North Korea’s nuclear facilities, hoping to remain in the loop as Washington and Pyongyang talk denuclearization.

The remote-controlled robots are being developed to remove melted fuel debris from the reactors in Fukushima, and must be able to withstand high radiation exposure – conditions which would fry an ordinary ‘bot. The US is concerned about radioactive contamination from the improper storage of nuclear materials at North Korean sites, government sources told Japan Times, citing a meeting that the US held with Japan before President Donald Trump’s failed February summit with Kim Jong-un in Hanoi.

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Though the cleanup robots remain in the planning stage for now, the inspection of facilities will be critical, both to map out the internal structure of the reactors and to gauge how much radiation the robots must be able to withstand.

PM Shinzo Abe has yet to meet with Kim directly, though he has expressed a desire to talk with the North Korean leader “without preconditions,” particularly on the matter of Japanese citizens who were abducted in the 1970s and 1980s.

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The US-South Korea military drills are a sore point for the North, which has been launching missiles for the past week in protest at the 10-day exercise, which Pyongyang sees as a simulated invasion of its territory. Pyongyang has stressed that while Kim is open to meeting with Trump, “inter-Korean contact itself will be difficult” unless Seoul pulls out of the drills.

While the US and North Korea appeared to be making progress in denuclearization talks last year, the conversation was derailed in Hanoi when Washington refused to ease sanctions on Pyongyang in return for anything but total denuclearization. 

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Source : RT - Daily news

Japan may offer its Fukushima robots to US for denuclearization of North Korea – report

Japan may offer its Fukushima robots to US for denuclearization of North Korea – report