THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release March 19, 1997

March 18, 1997

                                     Presidential Determination
                                     No.        97-20          

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE

  SUBJECT:       U.S. Contribution to KEDO:  Certification Under 
                 the Heading "Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, 
                 Demining and Related Programs" in Title II of the 
                 Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related 
                 Programs Appropriations Act, 1997 (as enacted in 
                 Public Law 104-208)

Pursuant to the requirements set forth under the heading "Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining and Related Programs" in title II of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1997 (as enacted in Public Law 104-208), I certify that:

            (1)(A) the United States is taking steps to assure 
       that progress is made on the implementation of the 
       January 1, 1992, Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization 
       of the Korean Peninsula and the implementation of the 
       North-South dialogue, and (B) North Korea is complying with 
       the other provisions of the Agreed Framework between North 
       Korea and the United States and with the Confidential 
       Minute;
  
            (2) North Korea is cooperating fully in the canning 
       and safe storage of all spent fuel from its 
       graphite-moderated nuclear reactors and that such canning 
       and safe storage is scheduled to be completed by the end 
       of fiscal year 1997; and
  
            (3) North Korea has not significantly diverted 
       assistance provided by the United States for purposes 
       for which it was not intended.

You are authorized and directed to report this determination to the Congress and to publish it in the Federal Register.

WILLIAM J. CLINTON

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