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North Korea: Delegation Returns Home After Training North Korean nuclear energy officials left South Korea Sunday after touring nuclear facilities there for two weeks (see GSN, Dec. 21). The delegation of 20 North Koreans visited the Kori nuclear power station, nuclear reactors in Ulchin, the Korea Power Engineering Company in Yongin and the Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety in Taedok Science Town. The officials visited Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction in Changwon, which is manufacturing parts for two light-water nuclear reactors to be built in North Korea (Seoul Yonhap, Dec. 30 in FBIS-EAS, Dec. 31). They also stopped at the headquarters of the main contractor for the reactor project, Korea Electric Power (BBC News/Nuclear Control Institute, Dec. 30). The tour was part of a training agreement signed in October 2000 by North Korea and the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO), an international organization that is building the reactors in exchange for a freeze of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. The two parties agreed that KEDO would train 530 North Korean technicians in North Korea in the first half of 2002, and 290 would also train in South Korea over the next two years, according to Yonhap (Seoul Yonhap, Dec. 28 in FBIS-EAS, Dec. 31). Click here to read the training agreement. Meanwhile, KEDO and the European Community agreed to renew the European Union’s membership in the organization, KEDO reported in December. The EU also agreed to continue its role on the KEDO executive board and to contribute about $18 million each year from 2001 to 2005 (KEDO release, Dec. 19).
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