[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 10 (Monday, March 15, 1999)]
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[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization

March 4, 1999

Presidential Determination No. 99-16

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: U.S. Contribution to KEDO: Certification Under Section 582(b) 
of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
Appropriations Act, 1999, as contained in Public Law 105-277

    Pursuant to section 582(b) of the Foreign Operations, Export 
Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1999, as contained 
in Public Law 105-277, I hereby certify that:
    (1)(A) the parties to the Agreed Framework have taken and continue 
      to take demonstrable steps to assure that progress is made on the 
      implementation of the January 1, 1992, Joint Declaration on the 
      Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in which the Government 
      of North Korea, has committed not to test, manufacture, produce, 
      receive, possess, store, deploy, or use nuclear weapons;
    (B) the parties to the Agreed Framework have taken and continue to 
      take demonstrable steps to assure that progress is made on the 
      implementation of the North-South dialogue; and
    (C) North Korea is complying with all provisions of the Agreed 
      Framework and with the Confidential Minute between North Korea and 
      the United States.
    (2) North Korea is cooperating fully in the canning and safe storage 
      of all spent fuel from its graphite-moderated nuclear reactors;
    (3) North Korea has not significantly diverted assistance provided 
      by the United States for purposes for which it was not intended; 
      and
    (4) the United States is fully engaged in efforts to impede North 
      Korea's development and export of ballistic missiles.
    You are authorized and directed to report this certification to the 
Congress and to arrange for its publication in the Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton

Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary 
on March 5. This item was not received in time for publication in the 
appropriate issue.