[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 7 (Monday, February 16, 1998)]
[Pages 234-235]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization

February 9, 1998

Presidential Determination No. 98-14

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: U.S. Contribution to the Korean Peninsula Energy Development 
Organization (KEDO)

    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, 1998 (Public Law 105-118), I certify that:
    (1)(A) the parties to the Agreed Framework are 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 April 1, 
1998; 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 February 10.

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