On February 22, the South Korean Foreign Minister warned that South Korea would take political and economic measures to stop Taiwan from shipping waste to the North, raising the temperature of the dispute.
不久，南韓外長柳宗夏也於元月二十二日在漢城提出警告，表示南韓將對台灣運送核廢料至北韓採取「政治與經濟」的反制措施，核廢料爭議有逐漸升高的態勢。