<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1908571.stm>
( -or- http://tinyurl.com/j77l9 )
This is a story from 3 April, 2002:
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The US Government has announced that it will release $95m to North
Korea as part of an agreement to replace the Stalinist country's own
nuclear programme, which the US suspected was being misused.
Under the 1994 Agreed Framework an international consortium is
building two proliferation-proof nuclear reactors and providing fuel
oil for North Korea while the reactors are being built.
In releasing the funding, President George W Bush waived the
Framework's requirement that North Korea allow inspectors to ensure
it has not hidden away any weapons-grade plutonium from the original
reactors.
President Bush argued that the decision was "vital to the national
security interests of the United States".
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So how does not waiving verification of their potential weapons
program enhance US security?
-- Ed Leafe
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