THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

June 29, 2000

                                   Presidential Determination
                                   No.        2000-25

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE

SUBJECT:       U.S. Contribution to the Korean Peninsula Energy
          Development Organization (KEDO):  Certification and Waiver

Pursuant to section 576(c) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2000, as enacted in Public Law 106-113, (the "Act"), I hereby certify that:

     (1) the effort to can and safely store all spent fuel from North
         Korea's graphite-moderated nuclear reactors has been
         successfully concluded;

     (2) North Korea is complying with its obligations under the
         agreement regarding access to suspect underground construction;
         and

     (3) the United States has made and is continuing to make
         significant progress on eliminating the North Korean ballistic
         missile threat, including further missile tests and its
         ballistic missile exports.

Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 576(d) of the Act, I hereby determine that it is vital to the national security interests of the United States to furnish up to $20 million in funds made available under the heading "Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and Related Programs" of that Act, for assistance for KEDO and therefore I hereby waive the requirement in section 576(c)(3) to certify that: North Korea has terminated its nuclear weapons program, including all efforts to acquire, develop, test, produce, or deploy such weapons.

You are hereby authorized and directed to report this certification and wavier to the Congress and to arrange for its publication in the Federal Register.

WILLIAM J. CLINTON

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