• The caution of countries in the world in considering the transfer of experts in the nuclear security sector
• Nuclear has become a political tool for many countries in the security sector that has actually entered an obsolete era.
• Countries that use nuclear in the energy level should get equal recognition in peace and climate mitigation efforts.

Sobat EBT Heroes Must Know The History Of Nuclear

After the cold war era, nuclear became an important instrument in national defense. In the modern era 4.0, energy needs driven by massive industrialization have caused nuclear instruments to transform into a commodity that is highly calculated. Above “peaceful uses of nuclear energy” nuclear is placed in its position as one of the producers of energy sources.

Generally, every country calls the nuclear reactor used for peaceful purposes. Initially, developed countries inspired the use of nuclear as part of energy projects. Aside from military use to create a peaceful and friendly image. Politicization in the use of nuclear for peaceful purposes is one way to secure its position so that it can continue to develop its technology.

Wrong Perspective on Nuclear Indicators

Most countries that can process nuclear are categorized as developed countries. Uranium processing requires high technology and adequate human resources. In this case, South Korea actually has the ability to process uranium into weapons of mass destruction.

In contrast to South Korea’s condition, North Korea has massively conducted amazing nuclear tests. This country significantly demonstrated its capabilities in the first test which was quite successful for a country that was conducting a test for the first time. Responding to this, the Western country is very cautious in considering South Korea to have nukes because it will provoke China and Russia into new tensions.

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Pre-existing tensions in the region could trigger Japan as an American ally to request to have nukes as a form of national defense. The East Asian region, which does tend to be very risky for conflict, is the basis for caution in showing attitudes towards the actions of other countries in the region.

Moreover, the current nuclear core point of the “global warming era” should be an energy option. But then stagnate in the initial formula for its discovery of military purposes. This is motivated by geopolitical influences and tensions between East Asian countries that have not yet ended.

Why Is Nuclear Seen As A Security Sector?

It is worth looking at the reasons why North and South Korea have differences in nuclear use. Nukes in North Korea do stem from Kim Jong Un’s ambition to show his power in the region. In addition, the strength of North Korea’s enormous dictatorship has led to a perspective that considers all things a threat.

Especially the threat comes from South Korea and the United States which are considered to have conflicting ideologies. North Korea carried out a “survival regime”, which had an effect on the possession of nuclear weapons to be able to guarantee / bargaining its national survival. It also aims to continue to exist to maintain the safe and moral position of the country.

The use of nuclear weapons by countries that are arguably not included in developed countries can ensure that sometimes even the latest technology such as nuclear cannot be a reference to classified a country’s status as developed or developing. We can see that the use of nuclear weapons in the international world has become a bargaining tool position.

Nuclear Must Be Used For Energy If Humanity Is To Survive!

Nuclear has become a political tool for countries in the world, and if examined, the possession of nuclear technology is not an evidence to classify countries. Rather, it comes from the geopolitical aspects of nuclear-owning countries for their domestic purposes. It should be noted that the excellence of the state does not start from the progress of civilization and culture.

However, through the advancement of military technology, countries can have whatever they want using the tools they already have. The origin of how this technology was born is not for peaceful purposes as echoed “peaceful uses of nuclear energy”. If Sobat EBT Heroes look back at history to the era of World War II, the tragedies that occurred in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

It can be slightly understood how nuclear was born into the world in a form that is very different from the word “peace”. The positivist argument that says the transformation of the explosion in Japan created peace can be accepted. But it also needs action, one of which is to use it for energy. Not then developed to create sophistication to create greater destructive power.

Appropriate Perspectives For Viewing Nuclear

The context of nuclear use needs to be looked at more deeply as evidence of whether the status as a nuclear possessor country has a strong argument about the validity of “developed countries”. And how the classification is based on cultural, social or economic, political, and governmental contexts not from security sector.

The perspective of nuclear for peaceful purposes by utilizing it as energy in the context of climate mitigation should be a key point. Moreover, there are many countries that do not develop nuclear weapons and are still said to be developed countries in the economic context.

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In this case a country that does not have nuclear weapons is not unable to develop and process them. But it is related to the reasons for not wanting to have these weapons. The use of nuclear as an energy instrument can be seen as a country’s careful effort in seeing its potential. Looking at nuclear in an energy perspective will look cleaner than the perspective of state security weapons.

On July 1, 1968, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons was enacted to limit the possession of nuclear weapons. There is a commitment of countries that previously had nuclear weapons not to share technology on how to process and make nuclear weapons.

This should place the country that owns nuclear weapons technology under a great moral burden. Therefore, countries that use nuclear in the energy level should get proper recognition in peace and climate mitigation efforts.

What Can Be Seen?

The use of nuclear at the energy level aimed at climate mitigation can raise the morale of a nation at the international level. Peaceful uses of nuclear energy is a strong slogan in sustainable energy that should be the basis for looking at nuclear in the current era.

On the other hand, peaceful uses of nuclear energy are unacceptable when it comes to security, at this level being a country in a region. It is understood a country that has a nuclear device can get the technology through technology transfer. And some reason from purchasing technology through certain channels that cannot be known to the public. So what Sobat EBT Heroes think about nuclear, is it more appropriate as a weapon or energy?

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Editor: Savira Oktavia

Reference:

[1] (2023) Nuclear politicization (international political economy IR)

[2] Teuku May Rudy. (1993) Masalah Negara Berkembang Suatu Kajian Ekonomi Politik Internasional, hal.98

[3] Jihoon Yu & Erik French. The US Should Support South Korea’s Nuclear Submarine Aspirations After offering SSNs to Australia, it’s time to extend similar support to South Korea