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Viewing cable 06SEOUL4334, DOE SECRETARY BODMAN REVIEWS ENERGY PARTNERSHIP WITH KOREA

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06SEOUL4334 2006-12-20 05:42 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Seoul
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DE RUEHUL #4334/01 3540542
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 200542Z DEC 06
FM AMEMBASSY SEOUL
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 2023
INFO RHEBAAA/DEPT OF ENERGY WASHDC
RHEHAAA/WHITE HOUSE WASHDC
RUCPDOC/DEPT OF COMMERCE WASHDC 1606
RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING 1789
RUEHKO/AMEMBASSY TOKYO 1887
UNCLAS SEOUL 004334 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DOE FOR HQ - MWILLIAMSON 
DOE ALSO FOR SL - BGETTO 
DOE ALSO FOR INTERNATIONAL - RPRICE 
STATE FOR EB/ESC/IEC, ISN/NESS AND EAP/K 
WHITEHOUSE FOR CEQ 
USDOC FOR 3341/ITA/MAC/JBENDER AND JDUTTON 
USDOC ALSO FOR 3132/USFCS/EAP/WZARIT AND JHAMILTON 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ENRG OVIP TRGY KS
SUBJECT: DOE SECRETARY BODMAN REVIEWS ENERGY PARTNERSHIP WITH KOREA 
DURING DECEMBER 12-13 VISIT 
 
 
SUMMARY 
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1.   Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman visited South Korea December 
12-13.  In meetings with the Minister of Commerce, Industry and 
Energy and the Deputy Prime Minister for Science and Technology, 
Secretary Bodman reviewed U.S.-Korea collaboration, and sought to 
 
SIPDIS 
advance it in areas such as the Megaports Initiative and the Global 
Nuclear Energy Partnership.  He later joined Commerce Secretary 
Gutierrez for a joint event highlighting a U.S.-Korea public-private 
partnership in the area of clean energy technology that is helping 
to improve Korea's air quality.  End summary. 
 
MEETING WITH COMMERCE MINISTER 
------------------------------ 
 
2.  Secretary Bodman called December 13 on the ROK Minister of 
Commerce, Industry and Energy, Chung Sye-kyun on December 13. 
Bodman expressed pleasure with the U.S.-Korea partnership on energy 
issues, citing specifically Korea's participation in the FutureGen 
zero-emissions power generation demonstration project and in the 
ITER fusion demonstration project.  Bodman expressed U.S. hope that 
Korea would join in the Megaports Initiative designed to monitor 
movements of dangerous radiological materials, and offered technical 
assistance and equipment if Korea chooses to participate.  Minister 
Chung promised to review the Megaports issue with other relevant 
ministries. 
 
3.  Minister Chung expressed hope that U.S. policy will contribute 
to stabilizing the world price of oil, noting that the United States 
is the largest consumer of imported energy.  Secretary Bodman said 
that the five-party Energy Ministerial scheduled for later in the 
week in Beijing would give the U.S. and Korea an opportunity to 
examine the issues confronting the major consuming nations, 
including ways to encourage market-based decision-making.  Chung 
inquired whether there would be further meetings in the five-party 
format;  Secretary Bodman replied that would depend on whether 
concrete progress results.  Chung noted that the participation of 
India and China, each with rapidly rising energy needs, promised to 
make the forum useful. 
 
4.  Minister Chung inquired about U.S. efforts to spur a revival of 
the nuclear power industry.  Secretary Bodman sketched U.S. 
incentives to the industry, but said that long-term storage of 
nuclear waste remains a challenge.  He described the Global Nuclear 
Energy Partnership (GNEP) as an effort to encourage nuclear power 
use worldwide while ensuring strict adherence to nuclear 
nonproliferation.  He expressed U.S. pleasure with Korea's interest 
in participating in GNEP.  Alluding to Korea's desire for a special 
status in GNEP (based on the fact that while it does not control the 
full fuel cycle, neither is it a simple consumer of fuel produced 
elsewhere), Secretary Bodman said that he expected that a solution 
would be worked out that would allow Korea to take advantage of its 
technical and research capabilities.  Minister Chung said that Korea 
agrees with the principles underlying GNEP.  He appealed for U.S. 
understanding of Korea's need for a special status within GNEP and 
sought the Secretary's personal attention to the issue. 
 
5.  Turning to liquefied natural gas (LNG), Chung noted a surge in 
U.S. demand and worried about strains in the international market. 
Bodman noted that new legislation expected to be signed by the 
President would encourage increased production in the continental 
shelf.  While that might buy time, Bodman said, there is a need to 
find alternative sources of energy, including nuclear, biofuels, 
solar, wind, and coal combined with carbon sequestration.  He 
invited Korean experts to examine U.S. efforts in these areas. 
 
MEETING WITH DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER FOR S&T 
------------------------------------------ 
 
6.  Secretary Bodman next called on the Deputy Prime Minister (and 
Minister of Science and Technology), Kim Woo-sik.  The Secretary 
expressed appreciation for Korea's engagement in energy-related 
partnerships including ITER.  Kim noted that the Korean "KSTAR" 
tokamak (fusion research chamber) will be completed in 2007, with 
operations to begin in 2008.  He said it would have been impossible 
to build without U.S. collaboration, and noted that many of the 
Korean engineers involved were educated in the United States.  Kim 
invited the Secretary to participate in the KSTAR inaugural ceremony 
planned for September, 2007, noting that the publicity around such 
 
an event could help cement long-term public support for fusion 
research. 
 
7.  Minister Kim agreed with the Secretary that support for science 
should be nonpartisan.  He said that science had received strong 
support in the Roh Moo-hyun administration, noting that the science 
budget is up 10.5 percent over 2005.  He stated that his ministry is 
working on 10-year plans for major technologies, and promised to 
share them with the U.S. when the plans are completed. 
 
8.  Turning to GNEP, Secretary Bodman said the U.S. seeks an 
approach that makes full use of Korea's considerable research 
capabilities in the nuclear field.  Kim expressed appreciation for 
U.S. vision and leadership in GNEP, and said that Korea agrees with 
the objectives and principles of the partnership.  He pointed out 
that Korea conducts research on pyroprocessing with international 
cooperation and called for further consultations on how to 
incorporate that research into the initiative. 
 
9.  Responding to Secretary Bodman's comment that U.S.-Korean 
collaboration in science and technology has been excellent and 
mutually beneficial, Kim remarked that he is convinced that the U.S. 
will remain the leading power in S&T, and mentioned biotech as one 
area for enhanced bilateral cooperation.  Secretary Bodman said that 
DOE is working on putting biotech to work in achieving energy 
solutions, and offered a briefing on that effort whenever the 
Minister next visits the United States. 
 
CLEAN ENERGY EVENT 
------------------ 
 
10.  Secretary Bodman joined Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, 
visiting Seoul at the same time, for an event highlighting a unique 
public-private partnership that has substantially contributed to the 
improvement of the air quality in Korea.  The event featured buses 
and other heavy equipment powered by clean compressed natural gas 
(CNG), using technology supplied by a U.S. firm, Woodward Governor 
of Rockford, Illinois, through its Korean partner, NGVI.  More than 
11,400 buses, or nearly 40 percent of the buses in Korea, have been 
replaced with the clean-burning CNG buses, and more than 100 garbage 
trucks have been converted to CNG.  The Korean government has 
recently announced plans to convert a total of 23,000 buses by 2010. 
 Both Secretary Bodman and Secretary Gutierrez made brief remarks 
welcoming this sort of collaboration, where U.S. technology has 
direct benefits for the populace.  They then inspected one of the 
Seoul City CNG buses and a CNG-powered street cleaner with the media 
in tow, and obtained good press coverage. 
 
VERSHBOW