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[text= Clinton Administration Plutonium Policy and North Korea]
[clausereg: sent2 clause1]
[text= U.S. policy on the use of plutonium has remained essentially the same under the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations]
[clausereg: sent3 clause1]
[text= the DPRK and South Korea must renounce all plutonium]
[clausereg: sent3 clause2]
[text= Japan can acquire]
[clausereg: sent3 clause3]
[text= it wants from U.S.-supplied nuclear fuel]
[clausereg: sent4 clause1]
[text= This discriminatory approach was reiterated by President Clinton]
[clausereg: sent4 clause2]
[text= nonproliferation policy states]
[clausereg: sent4 clause3]
[text= The United States does not encourage the civil use of plutonium]
[clausereg: sent4 clause4]
[text= , accordingly, does not itself]
[clausereg: sent4 clause5]
[text= engage in plutonium reprocessing for]
[clausereg: sent4 clause6]
[text= nuclear power]
[clausereg: sent4 clause7]
[text= nuclear explosive purposes]
[clausereg: sent5 clause1]
[text= The United States, however, will maintain its existing commitments regarding the use of plutonium in civil nuclear programs in Western Europe]
[clausereg: sent5 clause2]
[text= Japan]
[clausereg: sent5 clause3]
[text= 1341]
[clausereg: sent6 clause1]
[text= At the same time]
[clausereg: sent6 clause2]
[text= U.S. Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary has launched an initiative]
[clausereg: sent6 clause3]
[text= to explore alternatives]
[clausereg: sent6 clause4]
[text= to reprocessing and has expressed her opposition to reprocessing and plutonium fuel cycles]
[clausereg: sent7 clause1]
[text= The U.S. has insisted]
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[text= the DPRK give up its reprocessing plant and all plutonium ambitions]
[clausereg: sent8 clause1]
[text= South Korean efforts]
[clausereg: sent8 clause2]
[text= to acquire reprocessing plants, plutonium separation technology, and related technology]
[clausereg: sent8 clause3]
[text= have also been quashed by firm U.S. diplomacy]
[clausereg: sent9 clause1]
[text= U.S. plutonium policy toward Japan is governed by the 1988 revision of the U.S.-Japanese nuclear cooperation agreement]
[clausereg: sent9 clause2]
[text= gave Japan advance approval]
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[text= to reprocess as much U.S.-origin spent fuel as it wants over a 30-year period [35]]
[clausereg: sent10 clause1]
[text= The previous agreement]
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[text= was not]
[clausereg: sent10 clause3]
[text= expire until 2003]
[clausereg: sent10 clause4]
[text= empowered the U.S.]
[clausereg: sent10 clause5]
[text= to decide each Japanese request for reprocessing]
[clausereg: sent10 clause6]
[text= plutonium use on a case-by-case basis]
[clausereg: sent11 clause1]
[text= In November 1991]
[clausereg: sent11 clause2]
[text= the North-South Korean bilateral denuclearization agreement was being negotiated]
[clausereg: sent11 clause3]
[text= -U.S. Secretary of State James Baker made clear]
[clausereg: sent11 clause4]
[text= prohibiting fuel cycle facilities was not sufficient]
[clausereg: sent11 clause5]
[text= the only firm assurance against a nuclear arms race in the Korean peninsula would be a credible agreement by]
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[text= Seoul]
[clausereg: sent11 clause7]
[text= Pyongyang]
[clausereg: sent11 clause8]
[text= to abstain from the production or acquisition of any weapons-grade nuclear material]
[clausereg: sent11 clause9]
[text= [emphasis supplied] [36]]
[clausereg: sent12 clause1]
[text= It is significant]
[clausereg: sent12 clause2]
[text= the North South agreement included a ban on production]
[clausereg: sent12 clause3]
[text= not on acquisition of plutonium]
[clausereg: sent12 clause4]
[text= presumably leaving South Korea free]
[clausereg: sent12 clause5]
[text= to seek reprocessing services]
[clausereg: sent12 clause6]
[text= delivery of separated plutonium from the U.K.]
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[text= France]
[clausereg: sent12 clause8]
[text= as Japan has done]
[clausereg: sent13 clause1]
[text= The present U.S. discriminatory policy may not prove diplomatically sustainable]
[clausereg: sent14 clause1]
[text= Japan and South Korea are democratic governments]
[clausereg: sent14 clause2]
[text= they are NPT members with full-scope safeguards]
[clausereg: sent14 clause3]
[text= they have defense treaties with the U.S.]
[clausereg: sent14 clause4]
[text= large-scale nuclear power programs]
[clausereg: sent15 clause1]
[text= The U.S. State Department must explain to South Korea]
[clausereg: sent15 clause2]
[text= it trusts Tokyo]
[clausereg: sent15 clause3]
[text= not Seoul]
[clausereg: sent15 clause4]
[text= with plutonium]
[clausereg: sent16 clause1]
[text= U.S. policy suggests]
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[text= NPT membership]
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[text= IAEA safeguards]
[clausereg: sent16 clause4]
[text= compliance are the ultimate solution to the Northeast Asian proliferation problem]
[clausereg: sent17 clause1]
[text= Absent the elimination of civil plutonium, however,]
[clausereg: sent17 clause2]
[text= this approach can only serve]
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[text= to codify the problem with an NPT/ IAEA stamp of approval]
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