KEDO Suspends Nuclear Reactor Construction Project in North Korea

By Keith Costa / November 21, 2003 at 5:00 AM
The Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization's executive board today decided to suspend construction of two light-water nuclear reactors in North Korea for one year. The board, which includes representatives from the United States, Japan, South Korea and the European Union, met in New York this week to discuss the future of the LWR project. KEDO is the organization that carries out provisions of the 1994 U.S.-North Korean Agreed Framework, under which the North promised to freeze its nuclear program and...

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