House and Senate conferees have approved President Clinton's $55 million fiscal year 2001 request for the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, which buys and ships heavy fuel to North Korea. The money is contingent on a set of conditions the conferees have written that cover North Korea's nuclear weapons development program, among other issues. Conferees wrapped up work on the FY-01 Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs appropriations bill yesterday. The House passed the conference bill today by a...
