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| December 8, 2000 | atimes.com | ||
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Japan
Kedo signals intent to use Japanese firms TOKYO - The Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (Kedo) is likely to ask Hitachi Ltd and Toshiba Corp to jointly deliver generators for light-water reactors to be built in North Korea. On Wednesday, Kedo decided at an ambassadorial level meeting in Tokyo to tap Hitachi and Toshiba if General Electric Co withdraws its offer of participation. The US company, which was expected to receive the order, has been reluctant to get involved with the project. Kedo is an international organization with members that includ Japan, the US and South Korea. It was established to carry out key provisions of the Agreed Framework negotiated in 1994 by the US and North Korea. By 2008 Kedo will build proliferation-resistant light-water reactors in Kumho, in exchange for the North halting work on a black lead reactor, which could be used for developing nuclear arms. The project is worth US$4.6 billion, with the generators to cost several hundred million dollars, according to the Foreign Ministry. Hitachi and Toshiba have already been given informal assurances of orders for other equipment. (Asia Pulse) |
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