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S Korea signs $2.25 billion deal with Russia nuclear company

(AP) — South Korea has Moscow over its aggression.
signed a 3 trillion won He stressed there’s no pos-
($2.25 billion) deal with Choi Sang-mok, Yoon’s se- sibility that the technologies
a Russian state-run nu- nior secretary for economic being supplied by South Ko-
clear energy company to affairs, said South Korea rea to the project would clash
provide components for provided an explanation to with international sanctions
Egypt’s first nuclear pow- the United States in advance against Russia.
er plant. about its plans to participate
in the Dabaa project and that “Any kind of issue can be met
South Korea’s government the allies will maintain close by various uncertainties, but
said Thursday the contract consultation as the work pro- those have all been resolved
between the state-run Korea ceeds. as of now, and that’s why
Hydro and Nuclear Power we were able to finalize the
and ASE requires the South South Korea has been partici- agreement,” Choi said.
Koreans to provide turbine- pating in economic pressure
related equipment and con- campaign against Russia or- He expressed hope that
struction work for the plant chestrated by the Biden ad- South Korea’s participation ruary this year. were dented under the poli-
being built in Dabaa, about ministration, ending trans- in the Dabaa project would cies of his liberal predecessor,
130 kilometers (80 miles) actions with Russia’s central help the country gain a foot- Yoon’s office said the partici- Moon Jae-in, who sought to
northwest of Cairo on the bank and sovereign wealth hold in future nuclear proj- pation in the Dabaa project is reduce the country’s domes-
Mediterranean coast. funds and banning the ex- ects across Africa and also the country’s biggest export tic dependence on nuclear
ports of strategic materials to improve its chances to ex- of nuclear power technology energy.
ASE is a subsidiary of Ro- Russia. port to countries such as the since 2009, when a South
satom, a state-owned Russian Czech Republic, Poland and Korean-led consortium won Yoon in a statement on Face-
nuclear conglomerate. Choi did not specify how Saudi Arabia. a $20 billion contract to build book said the deal reaffirms
the crisis in Ukraine and the nuclear power reactors in the South Korea’s “advanced
A senior aide of South Ko- sanctions on Moscow caused Korea Hydro and Nuclear United Arab Emirates. technology and safeness and
rean President Yoon Suk Yeol difficulties for the negotia- Power had been engaging strong supply chains” in the
said the negotiations were tions between Korea Hydro in negotiations with ASE as Yoon, a conservative who nuclear power industry. His
slowed by “unexpected vari- and Nuclear Power and ASE, the preferred bidder for the took office in May, has government has set a goal of
ables,” mainly Russia’s war which has a contract with turbine-related project since pledged to boost South Kore- exporting 10 nuclear power
on Ukraine and the U.S.-led Egypt to build four 1,200 December, before Russia’s an exports of nuclear power reactors by 2030.
sanctions campaign against megawatt reactors. invasion of Ukraine in Feb- technology, which he insists

As Boris Johnson departs, UK takes stock of his messy legacy

(AP) — The moving vans appearance in Parliament as has had a serious impact on New customs and regulatory partner, (are) no better, if not
have already started ar- prime minister in July, he his country. He bears much barriers are also hindering worse, than when he became
riving at Downing Street summed up his three years in of the credit, or blame, for trade between Britain and the prime minister,” she said.
as Britain’s Conservative office as: “Mission largely ac- Britain’s departure from the 27 EU nations. The benefits
Party prepares to evict complished.” EU, a momentous decision of Brexit touted by Johnson The other defining event of
Prime Minister Boris whose consequences will and other supporters — a his premiership was CO-
Johnson. Many political historians take play out for years. chance to rip up onerous EU VID-19, which landed John-
a harsher view. rules and create a more dy- son in intensive care in April
The debate over what mark “The one certain thing you namic economy — have not 2020 and has left more than
he left on his party, his coun- “Winston Churchill said that can say is that his legacy is yet materialized. 180,000 people in Britain
try and the world will linger ‘History will be kind to me Brexit,” said Steven Fielding, dead.
long after he departs in Sep- for I intend to write it,’” said professor of political history Johnson’s promises to re-
tember — if, indeed, he really Tim Bale, professor of poli- at the University of Not- distribute investment and Johnson hesitated before
is gone for good. tics at Queen Mary Univer- tingham. “You can’t take that opportunity to neglected re- imposing a nationwide lock-
sity of London. “I’m pretty away from him — it’s just gions of Britain also remain down in March 2020; experts
Johnson led Britain out of sure Johnson does too, but I a question of whether it’s a unfulfilled. His successor later said acting a week earlier
the European Union and doubt he’ll find it’s as kind to good thing or a bad thing.” — either Foreign Secretary would have saved thousands
won a landslide election vic- him as it was to his hero.” Johnson’s backing for the Liz Truss or former Treasury of lives. Britain went on to
tory before his government “leave” campaign in Brit- chief Rishi Sunak, who are have three long lockdowns,
collapsed in a heap of eth- Johnson cultivated a buf- ain’s 2016 referendum on competing in a Conserva- a deep economic slump and
ics scandals. During his final foonish public image, but he EU membership was vital to tive Party leadership contest one of the highest death tolls
its victory. He had a popular whose outcome will be an- in Europe. But the U.K.’s
appeal that no other cam- nounced Sept. 5 — inherits vaccine program, led by a
paigner could match. When a deflating economy and a task force of scientists and
wrangling in Parliament over cost-of-living crisis sparked businesspeople, is widely re-
the departure terms brought by such factors as Brexit and garded as a major success.
down Prime Minister The- Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
resa May three years later, Victoria Honeyman, associate
Johnson succeeded her with Margaret MacMillan, emeri- professor of British politics at
a vow to “get Brexit done.” tus professor of international the University of Leeds, said
history at Oxford Univer- the verdict on Johnson’s pan-
He led the Conservatives sity, said Johnson has left the demic record is in the eye of
to a huge election victory in United Kingdom weakened the beholder.
2019 and took Britain out of both economically and con-
the EU the following year. stitutionally. “His supporters would argue
But the long divorce feels far that his actions were ben-
from “done.” Relations with “The Union is weaker, the eficial and justified,” she said,
the EU have soured amid un- status and future of North- “while his critics would argue
resolved disputes over trade ern Ireland in question, and that the actions were the bare
rules for Northern Ireland. relations with the EU, which minimum.”
is still Britain’s major trading