[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 36, Number 26 (Monday, July 3, 2000)]
[Pages 1546-1547]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on U.S. Contribution to the Korean Peninsula Energy 
Development Organization

June 29, 2000

 Presidential Determination No. 2000-25

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

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

    Pursuant to section 576(c) of the Foreign Operations, Export 
Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2000, as enacted in 
Public Law 106-113, (the ``Act''), I hereby certify that:
 (1)         the effort to can and safely store all spent fuel from 
            North Korea's graphite-moderated nuclear reactors has been 
            successfully concluded;
 (2)         North Korea is complying with its obligations under the 
            agreement regarding access to suspect underground 
            construction; and
 (3)         the United States has made and is continuing to make 
            significant progress on eliminating the North Korean 
            ballistic missile threat, including further missile tests 
            and its ballistic missile exports.
    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 $20 million in funds made 
available under the heading ``Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining 
and Related Programs'' of that Act, for assistance for KEDO and 
therefore I hereby waive the requirement in section

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576(c)(3) to certify that: North Korea has terminated its nuclear 
weapons program, including all efforts to acquire, develop, test, 
produce, or deploy such weapons.
    You are hereby authorized and directed to report this certification 
and wavier to the Congress and to arrange for its publication in the  
Federal Register. 
                                            William J. Clinton