KOREA: Seoul, Tokyo fund nuclear plant in North Korea

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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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