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U.S. Wants to Cancel N. Korea Light Water Reactor Project
State Department officials said the United States is set this year to cancel an international project to build two light-water nuclear reactors for North Korea, the Washington Times reported today (see GSN, May 27). The United States announced its intention last week in New York during a meeting of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, which is managing the project. The organization is comprised of representatives from the United States, Japan, South Korea and the European Union. KEDO suspended plans for the reactors last year over North Korea’s uranium-enrichment efforts, U.S. officials said. The organization agreed during its May 20 meeting to maintain the suspension, according to a KEDO spokeswoman. However, canceling the project altogether would require a decision of the organization’s board. South Korea favors keeping open the possibility of resuming construction as a way to influence North Korea in negotiations on the communist nation’s nuclear program, according to officials (Bill Gertz, Washington Times, May 28). Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said he is set to travel to South and North Korea this summer, Interfax reported. The trip is scheduled to follow the regional forum of the Association of Southeast Nations in late June, Lavrov said. “The purpose of the visit is to discuss the relations between South and North Korea and to resolve the (issue of) North Korea’s nuclear program,” he added (Interfax, May 28).
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