[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 36, Number 8 (Monday, February 28, 2000)]
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Memorandum on the United States Contribution to the Korean Peninsula 
Energy Development Organization

February 24, 2000

Presidential Determination No. 2000-15

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: U.S. Contribution to the Korean Peninsula Energy Development 
Organization (KEDO): Certification and Waiver Under the Heading 
``Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining and Related Programs'' in 
Title II of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related 
Programs Appropriations Act, 2000, as enacted in Public Law 106-113

    Pursuant to section 576(b) of the Foreign Operations, Export 
Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2000 (the Act), as 
enacted in the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 
106-113), I hereby certify that:
(1)         the parties to the Agreed Framework have taken and continue 
            to take demonstrable steps to implement the Joint 
            Declaration on 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, and not to possess nuclear 
            reprocessing or uranium enrichment facilities;
(2)         the parties to the Agreed Framework have taken and continue 
            to take demonstrable steps to pursue the North-South 
            dialogue; and
(3)         North Korea is complying with all provisions of the Agreed 
            Framework.
    Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 576(d) of the Act, 
I hereby determine that it is vital to the national security interests 
of the United States to furnish up to $15 million in funds made 
available under the heading ``Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, 
Demining, and Related Programs'' of the Act, for assistance for KEDO, 
and therefore I hereby waive the requirement in section 576(b) to 
certify that:
(4)         North Korea has not diverted assistance provided by the 
            United States for purposes for which it was not intended; 
            and
(5)         North Korea is not seeking to develop or acquire the 
            capability to enrich uranium, or any additional capability 
            to reprocess spent nuclear fuel.
    You are hereby authorized and directed to report this certification 
and waiver to the Congress and to arrange for its publication in the 
Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton