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#NONPROLiFERATION: Russia threatens South Korea and Japan nucler power sites in the event of war. Henry Sokolski, NPEC

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🗓️ 4 January 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#NONPROLiFERATION: Russia threatens South Korea and Japan nucler power sites in the event of war. Henry Sokolski, NPEC

1949 Kim in Moscow

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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:08.0

Here's John Batchelor.

0:10.0

Nuclear power stations and the connection to the electric grid

0:16.0

in the United States and around the world.

0:19.0

Why is that significant in an information war with our adversaries,

0:23.6

chiefly Russia at this point, but we can include China and Iran and North Korea?

0:30.6

And a Financial Times revelation these last days,

0:35.6

according to a document seen by the Financial Times dated as a secret file from 2013 to 2014,

0:44.3

Russia's military is prepared a target list for a potential war with Japan and South Korea. That target list includes nuclear power stations and not just any nuclear power station,

0:58.8

as we will quickly learn.

1:00.8

In addition, the strike plan summarized in a leaked set of Russian military documents.

1:06.6

Leaked, leaked.

1:07.9

I emphasize, this is information war.

1:10.3

What kind of leak?

1:12.0

It covers 160 sites such as roads, bridges, and factories, selected as targets to quote, so-called

1:18.6

stop the regrouping of troops in areas of operational purpose. In other words, total war

1:24.4

against the civilian population that would be deprived of electricity in addition to

1:30.1

being exposed to nuclear waste. I welcome Henry Sikolsky, my guide on these matters for the last

1:37.2

three years, given that this is writ large what we've been talking about in Ukraine, Chernobyl first and Zaporisia since, the vulnerability

1:48.0

of Ukraine to a strike on its nuclear power plants and what is to be done.

1:53.0

Henry is the executive director in the Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center, and that includes

1:59.0

nuclear power stations in war zones.

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