South Korea to appeal WTO ruling against its ban on Fukushima seafood imports

Government insists contamination from nuclear disaster still poses danger

Crew members of trawl fishing ships take a break at Onahama port in Iwaki, south of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture in 2013.

SOTARO SUZUKI and RINTARO HOSOKAWA, Nikkei staff writer

February 23, 2018 12:13 JST

Updated on February 23, 2018 14:24 JST

SEOUL/GENEVA -- South Korea said on Friday it will appeal a World Trade Organization ruling that calls on the country to end its ban on fishery imports from Japan's Fukushima Prefecture, where nuclear meltdowns occurred nearly seven years ago after a devastating earthquake and tsunami.