December 16, 1999 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sang Joo Kim

  West to build reactors for North Koreans

"Seoul: A U. S.-led consortium [KEDO] has signed a $4.6 billion deal to build two nuclear reactors in North Korea, a reward for the communist nation's promise to freeze and eventually dismantle its suspected nuclear weapons program.

The contract was the final phase of preparations to build the U.S. -designed reactors in Kumho, a rural village in North Korea's northeast.

Desaix Anderson, the consortium's executive director, signed the contract Wednesday with Byung Soo Choi, the president of the South's state utility company, Korea Electric Power Corp.

The South Korean firm will be the main builder of the reactors and other key facilities for the power plants." (San Francisco Examiner, December 16, 1999)

Please note that Desaix Anderson presented his paper, "KEDO: Seed for Peace in the Korean Peninsula?" (ICAS Lectures 99-226-DEA) at the ICAS Winter Symposium on February 26, 1999, Philadelphia.