US, China to reward North Korea with fuel aid

[hedgetrimmer]

Source: Daily News Sri Lanka

UNITED STATES: The United States and China are preparing to provide tens of millions of dollars in fuel aid to North Korea as it moves to declare and disable its nuclear weapons program, US officials said.
The planned aid came as US news reports quoting intelligence sources suggested that North Korea could be helping Syria build a nuclear weapons program, raising concerns over Pyongyang’s proliferation record.

Under an aid-for-disarmament program, China was expected to send 50,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil to its hardline communist neighbor this month to be followed by a similar US shipment, a US administration official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
US President George W. Bush’s administration notified Congress on Tuesday “of its intent to provide 25 million dollars that would cover the third tranche shipment of 50,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil to North Korea,” the official told AFP.

The US legislature has to be informed of any Washington aid to North Korea, which is currently under sanctions. Pyongyang, which tested a nuclear bomb in October last year, is also on a US blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism.
The first tranche of fuel aid was provided by South Korea in July after its northern neighbor closed its key Yongbyon nuclear plant as part of a six-nation agreement struck on February 13 that promised energy aid and diplomatic and security guarantees to Pyongyang if it abandons its nuclear arsenal.
“And China is preparing the second shipment of HFO (heavy fuel oil) likely in September,” the US official said.
The Chinese and American shipments are expected to head to North Korea after it agrees to declare and disable its nuclear program at a six-party meeting in Beijing possibly next week among envoys from the two Koreas, China, the United States, Russia and Japan.



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Where the hell is chimpy going to get that $?

[bemildred]

1. Dolton ain't going to like this. nt

[BrotherBuzz]

2. Isn't this exactly what Clinton had set up

before he left office, and then that asshole Bush nixed the deal? Seven fucking wasted years. Oh wait, it wasn't completely wasted, NK made a couple of lucrative backpack nukes during that period. Swell!

[ohio2007]

5. Sunshine policy remix

It'll keep Kim in power and his minions starving for life support aid

[Deja Q]

3. And yet people get upset when somebody says 'pay people to exercise', 'sense of entitlement', et al.

Still, as long as N Korea doesn't betray China or the US, why not?

I'd still keep an eye on them, however.

[jamesinca]

4. Blackmail I tell you

That is what they called it when cowboy first put the bombers on Guam and stopped the oil shipments to N. Korea. Every republican that I heard speak on the topic used the word blackmail. They would not be blackmailed by N. Korea. They would show their resolve and cut them off and teach them, a part of the axis of evil, a lesson.