Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
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The Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) is an organization founded on March 15, 1995 by the United States, South Korea, and Japan to implement the 1994 Agreed Framework that froze North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
Since then, other members have joined:
- 1995: Australia, Canada, New Zealand
- 1996: Argentina, Chile, Indonesia
- 1997: European Union, Poland
- 1999: Czech Republic
- 2000: Uzbekistan
In the wake of the breakdown of the Agreed Framework around 2003, KEDO has largely lost its function. Currently KEDO is ensuring that the light water reactor project assets at the construction site at Kumho, 30 km north of Sinpo, in North Korea and at manufacturers’ facilities around the world ($1.5 billion invested to date) are preserved and maintained. KEDO discussions take place at the level of a U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, South Korea's deputy foreign minister, and the head of the Asian bureau of Japan's Foreign Ministry.
See also
External links
- Official KEDO website (http://www.kedo.org)
- Agreement on Supply of a Light-Water Reactor Project to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (http://www.kedo.org/pdfs/SupplyAgreement.pdf) - KEDO, 1995