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To: DMaA who wrote (309642)	10/18/2002 11:03:21 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

This is not my spin. I listened to Congressman Ackermann from New York who chaired the committee with approved the deal. There is a misconception the US paid for most of this project. The US only paid a small amount - to supply North Korea with fuel oil while the light water reactor was being built. Most of the money came from Japan, China and South Korea. By the way, this deal met with their approval. It appears the deal actually benefitted the US but not so much as originally thought. The conservative media is distorting the facts of this story. Conservatives just lap it up without research.

To: DMaA who wrote (309642)	10/18/2002 11:13:52 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Here it is DNA - easy to find if you are willing to look. Senator Visits Suspended North Korean Nuclear Facility In mid-January, Senator Carl Levin (Democrat - Michigan), the Ranking Minority Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, visited the Yongbyon heavy-water nuclear reactor in North Korea, shut down following an October 1994 Framework Agreement between North Korea and the United States. The US suspected that the reactor was being used to produce fissile materials as part of a nuclear-weapons development programme. As Senator Levin explained, speaking in Seoul on 19 January, his main interest was in observing the process of extracting the facility's nuclear fuel-rods. He reported that the operation seemed currently to be proceeding satisfactorily: "The purpose of my visit was to visit the actual site of the North Korean nuclear facility... We wanted to see with our own eyes, and we did...[that] the canning of the spent fuel is occurring successfully acronym.org.uk