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Clinton Approves Nuclear Agreement with North Korea

It will End Proliferation Threat on Peninsula'

Alexander M. Sullivan writes from Washington
P RESIDENT Clinton has approved a nuclear framework agreement with North Korea and will send Ambassador Robert Gallucci back to Geneva to sign it this week.
The agreement, capping 16 months of often tense negotiations with Pyongyang, "will help to achieve a long-standing and vital American objective." the president said October 18. "an end to the threat of nuclear proliferation on the Korean Peninsula."
The agreement. Gallucci said, has the effect of freezing and eventually dismantling North Korea's entire current nuclear programme and replacing it with a new $4,000 million dollar programme to build light-water nuclear power generating stations.
The agreement calls for shipment of spent fuel out of North Korea, sealing the North Korean reprocessing plant, and ending use of the current reactor whose fuel might later be turned Into weapons-grade plutonium. The substitute ligh't water reactor programme does not share that characteristic.
Clinton said the framework text "reduces the danger of the threat" of proliferation In the region and is "a crucial step toward drawing North Korea into the global community."
The president recalled that
US concern about possible North Korean development of nuclear weapons -dates to the 1980s. with Washington trying under three administrations "to bring the nuclear programme under international control. There Is nothing more important to our security and to the world's stability than preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and ballistic weapons."
Clinton said that in addition to freezing its entire nuclear programme. North Korea would "accept international Inspection of all existing facilities." The inspections would be carried out by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency.
The president said the agreement represents "the first step on the road to a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula. It does not rely on trust. Compliance will be certified bv the IAEA.
The two countries, he said, also agreed to ease trade restrictions and to move toward establishing liaison offices
Gallucci said the agreement answers past, present and future activity by North Korea. He recalled that North Korea's previous difficulty with IAEA inspection led to suspicion that Pyongyang had produced a nuclear weapon, or had the plutonium to do so. He said the agreement's provision for full
IAEA inspection will resolve that matter. Further, he noted, before sensitive equipment for the light water reactors is delivered. questions about past activity must-be answered.
Under the agreement's terms. Gallucci said, North Korea's operating five megawatt reactor "will not re-start. The re processing facility will be sealed and will not be operated again. That means the fuel that is in the (storage) pond will stay in the pond.'
North Korea's interest in keeping the agreement. Gallucci said, lies in the advantages to Pyongyang of "things it values." including the light-water reactor and closer political and economic ties with the West. The North Koreans are well aware," he explained, "that they are going to have to reconcile themselves with the NPT and that the nuclear Issue Is truly going to be resolved."
The framework agreement requires Pyongyang to "come Into full compliance" with its safeguard obligations and commitments under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Gallii cci said. "As a party to the treaty." he added. "North Korea cannot possess a nuclear weapon (and) if it has plutonium. it would have to be ' subject to IAEA safeguards."
The writer Is USIA White House Correspondent