[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 12 (Monday, March 24, 1997)]
[Page 382]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on the Certification of North Korea

March 18, 1997

Presidential Determination No. 97-20

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: U.S. Contribution to KEDO: Certification Under the Heading 
``Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining and Related Programs'' in 
Title II of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related 
Programs Appropriations Act, 1997 (as enacted in Public Law 104-208)

    Pursuant to the requirements set forth under the heading 
``Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining and Related Programs'' in 
title II of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related 
Programs Appropriations Act, 1997 (as enacted in Public Law 104-208), I 
certify that:
        (1)(A) the United States is taking steps to assure that progress 
      is made on the implementation of the January 1, 1992, Joint 
      Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and 
      the implementation of the North-South dialogue, and (B) North 
      Korea is complying with the other provisions of the Agreed 
      Framework between North Korea and the United States and with the 
      Confidential Minute;
        (2) North Korea is cooperating fully in the canning and safe 
      storage of all spent fuel from its graphite-moderated nuclear 
      reactors and that such canning and safe storage is scheduled to be 
      completed by the end of fiscal year 1997; and
        (3) North Korea has not significantly diverted assistance 
      provided by the United States for purposes for which it was not 
      intended.
    You are authorized and directed to report this determination to the 
Congress and to publish it in the Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton

Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary 
on March 19.