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N. Korea received US$2.3 billion through past nuke agreements: lawmaker
By Tony Chang
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has received some 2.7 trillion won (US$2.29 billion) from South Korea and international partners since 1994 in return for false promises to scrap its nuclear program, according to a lawmaker on Monday.
For the Geneva Framework Agreement reached in 1994, the North received $1.98 billion worth of support from South Korea, the U.S., Japan and the European Union, which was mostly used in building light-water reactors, Rep. Kwon Young-se of the ruling Grand National Party said, citing a report submitted by the foreign ministry.
Under the framework agreement, Pyongyang promised to freeze its nuclear activities in return for a set of two light-water reactors built and financed by an international consortium. Seoul shouldered $1.15 billion for the project, more than half of the money given to the North for the reactors, despite being shut out of the negotiations mostly held between Washington and Pyongyang, according to Kwon.
The lawmaker also pointed out that members of the six-party talks delivered some 745,000 tons of heavy oil, worth some $310 million, to the North under denuclearization agreements reached on February 13, 2007 and a follow-up agreement reached in October that year.
The six-party talks involve the Koreas, the U.S., Japan and Russia as well as host China.
odissy@yna.co.kr
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