KOREA: Seoul, Tokyo fund nuclear plant in North Korea

BY DOUG LORIMER

Despite their joining the US campaign claiming that Pyongyang is seeking to develop nuclear weapons, both the Japanese and South Korean governments continue to fund the construction of a nuclear power plant in North Korea.

According a May 14 article in the Moscow daily Pravda, a Russian correspondent was told by telephone by an official in the South Korean Ministry of Unification that, as of the end of April, Seoul had spent US$850 million on financing the nuclear power plant, which is to replace the old experimental reactor at Yongbyon.

The official also said $320 million had been spent on the project by Japan.

From Green Left Weekly, May 21, 2003.

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