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| Seoul offers NKorea electricity.... |
| 2005-07-12 |
| SEOUL (AFX) - South Korea has offered to lay power lines into North Korea and provide it with electricity if Pyongyang agrees to dismantle its nuclear weapons program, South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-Young said at a news conference. Cool! Cause developing nuclear weapons in the dark is hard! The offer comes just days after Pyongyang said it will return to the bargaining table and re-open six-nation talks later this month on ending its controversial program. South Korea would transmit its surplus electric power to the North through cross-border power lines which have yet to be built, Chung said. 'In order to resolve the nuclear issue, we are willing to transmit power to North Korea, if the North agrees on the dismantlement,' Chung added. only agree... no mention of actually doing it.... 'I hope that this offer will provide a crucial momentum for the resolution of North Korea's nuclear issue and for the settlement of peace on the Korean peninsula,' he said. Chung said that after three years of construction, South Korea would be able to route some 2,000 megawatts of electricity to the North, which has repeatedly asked for energy and security guarantees to abandon its weapons drive. 'We will carry out this proposal on our own but other countries are requested to respond (to this proposal) by making their own gestures,' he said. I'm sure we can deliver a few mega Pyongyang was informed of the proposal containing massive economic aid when Chung met North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il on June 10, and Chung said Kim had pledged to 'consider the proposal very seriously.' Under a 1994 US-North Korea accord, an international consortium led by South Korea and the United States had been building nuclear power reactors in North Korea's northeastern county of Kumho. But the project came to a halt after Pyongyang allegedly admitted to the United States in Oct 2002 that it was running a uranium enrichment program in violation of the accord. April Fools! (belated....) The reactor project called for South Korea to underwrite some 3.5 bln usd, 70 pct of total construction costs, with the remaining 1.5 bln usd to be shared by the United States, Japan and the European Union. South Korea has already spent 1.1 bln usd on the light-water reactor project, and Seoul could use the remaining 2.4 bln to build power transmission lines and overhaul the North's electricity facilities. Chung said he outlined the offer to US Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a visit to Washington last month. The initiatives from South Korea come as diplomatic efforts intensify to lay the the groundwork for the six-nation talks in Beijing later this month. The talks also include Japan and Russia. Chinese presidential envoy Tang Jiaxuan arrived in Pyongyang today, while Rice arrived in Seoul. Chief negotiators from South Korea, the United States and Japan will also meet here on Thursday. |
| Posted by:CrazyFool |
| #7 If the NORKS want a plug-in, then let the Chicoms provide it. If the SKors want to provide enabling to the NORKS, let them do it on their own nickel and the US can get the hell out of SKor. IF the SKors want to be NORKS, then fine, do it without the US military. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-07-12 20:29 |
| #6 Jonathan's explanation also parallel's China's reasons, other than f*cking us while they're at it; for the SKors, it just seems to be a "happy" side effect that their regular folks (read: lefties in youth and government) like. |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2005-07-12 17:43 |
| #5 Make it 4,000MW capitalist running dogs. Enrichment very energy intensive. |
| Posted by: Lil Kim 2005-07-12 17:26 |
| #4 The only electricity they should be offering is 440 volts through a chair occupied by the Dear Leader. Idiots. |
| Posted by: WhiteCollarRedneck 2005-07-12 16:36 |
| #3 The South Koreans seemed to be scared to death that the Kim regime will collapse and leave them to support the North, so they prop it up as much as they can. If Kim wigs out and decides to march south, though, they might live to regret that policy. |
| Posted by: Jonathan 2005-07-12 15:52 |
| #2 South Korea has offered to lay power lines into North Korea and provide it with electricity if Pyongyang agrees to dismantle its nuclear weapons program, South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-Young said at a news conference. Wow, with this sort of mentality, it's a wonder South Korea even managed to get to where they are. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-07-12 14:44 |
| #1 Just ()*&$%)(*&#% Wonderful! |
| Posted by: Tkat 2005-07-12 12:49 |