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To: Mark Bartlett who wrote (21563)	10/14/1998 2:22:00 AM
From: Alex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116762

Hope the BIG ONE didn't get away : - ).................. North Korea poised to break nuclear pact Copyright © 1998 Nando.net Copyright © 1998 Reuters News Service TOKYO (October 13, 1998 9:56 p.m. EDT nandotimes.com) - North Korea, angered by allegations of escalating their nuclear weapons program, does not care if a landmark nuclear pact with the United States is broken, the Korean Central News Agency said in a report monitored on Wednesday. Under the 1994 agreement, Washington promised Pyongyang it would receive 500,000 tons of fuel oil a year, as well as two light-water nuclear power reactors. In exchange, Pyongyang promised to abandon its nuclear program. On Tuesday, South Korea urged the U.S. Congress to fund the fuel oil supplies to North Korea, saying refusal to do so could jeopardize the framework agreement. Congress balked at meeting the fuel oil commitment after North Korea recently launched a multi-stage missile that flew over Japan and reports that the reclusive Stalinist nation was building an underground nuclear facility. Pyongyang has said it launched a rocket that successfully launched a small satellite and the KCNA dispatch denied the underground structures Pyongyang was building were military. "(North Korea) has a lot of civil underground structures now under construction," KCNA said. "The U.S. demands to verify them, claiming that they are 'underground nuclear facilities."' It said the allegations were an attempt to disarm North Korea and to violate its sovereignty. "If the U.S. policy is to break the framework agreement, (North Korea) has no intention to keep the U.S. from doing so," KCNA said. "If the U.S. side considers the framework agreement white elephant, it is free to break it. (North Korea) does not care about it."