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North Korea I: KEDO Suspends Fuel Oil Shipments The Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization decided yesterday to suspend future heavy fuel oil shipments to North Korea beginning next month (see GSN, Nov. 14). KEDO oversees international energy assistance to North Korea, which Pyongyang has accepted in exchange for a freeze on any nuclear activities under the 1994 Agreed Framework. “Future shipments will depend on North Korea’s concrete and credible actions to dismantle completely its highly enriched uranium program,” the KEDO executive board, consisting of the United States, European Union, South Korea and Japan, said in a press statement released after a meeting in New York. The KEDO executive board again condemned North Korea’s suspected nuclear weapons efforts, which it said violates Pyongyang’s international obligations under several agreements, and called on North Korea to “eliminate its nuclear weapons program in a visible and verifiable manner” (see related GSN story, today). “North Korea’s future relations and interaction with KEDO and the members of its executive board hinge on the complete and permanent elimination of its nuclear weapons program,” the board said (Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization release, Nov. 14). For further information, see:
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