Word: fueled
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...overseeing Pyongyang's nuclear capabilities. Under the proposed accord, North Korea would reportedly freeze its nuclear-weapons program, allow for regular international inspections of its facilities and abide by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The U.S. in return would help Pyongyang meet its energy needs with coal and fuel oil and eventually help arrange for the construction of nuclear power plants worth billions of dollars...
...been losing a massive share of our country's capital to fuel the growth of government," Romney says...
...reactors arrived. But this week Kang insisted the North would never permit special inspections, and would only start talking to the IAEA about its past nuclear program once the new reactors were more than 50% complete. Kang also said his government intended to keep the plutonium-rich fuel rods it removed from the Yongbyon reactor last May in North Korea instead of shipping them abroad...
...ominous new threat, he said Pyongyang wanted to insert new fuel rods into the reactor now, so it can generate more plutonium. While there is no sign the North has actually started refueling, Gallucci told Kang any attempt to do so would end all talks...
Washington can afford to wait a few weeks. IAEA inspectors note that North Korea is finally taking better care of the fuel rods removed from the Yongbyon reactor; they can remain safely in their cooling ponds for several more months under present conditions and much longer if the water quality is improved. Bill Clinton has no interest in encouraging another big international crisis while American troops are deployed in Haiti. But the fear that Pyongyang is just buying time while it builds secret bombs weighs more heavily than ever on many minds in Washington. Clinton will need real results soon...