The Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organisation (KEDO) has suspended fuel oil shipments to North Korea from December, following North Korea’s admission that it has a nuclear weapons programme.
KEDO said that its future activities with North Korea hinged on its “complete and permanent elimination” of the nuclear weapons programme. The statement said: “North Korea must promptly eliminate its nuclear weapons programme in a visible and verifiable manner. Heavy fuel oil deliveries will be suspended beginning with the December shipment. Future shipments will depend on North Korea’s concrete and credible actions to dismantle completely its highly enriched uranium programme. In this light, other KEDO activities with North Korea will be reviewed.”
