South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said on Thursday that the US and South Korea agreed to discuss nuclear fuel reprocessing following a summit between US President Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung this week.

Axar.az reports, citing Reuters, “We operate 26 nuclear power plants, buying and bringing in fuel for them every time... We have been feeling the necessity of being able to reprocess it and to make our own fuel through concentrates,” Cho said in a live televised interview.

“In order to do this, cooperation with the US is most important. We need to change the nuclear agreement, or use another method under the agreement (between the countries). So it is very meaningful that we decided to begin discussions in that direction.”