North Korea to split aid between fuel and goods http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSSEO18710920071030
Tue Oct 30, 2007
By Jon Herskovitz
PANMUNJOM, South Korea (Reuters) - Regional powers agreed on Tuesday to give half the aid they promised North Korea for disabling its ageing nuclear plant to help refurbish the communist state's dilapidated infrastructure. North Korea was to receive one million tonnes of heavy fuel for shutting down its Soviet-era nuclear facility under a six-country disarmament-for-aid deal.
At talks in the truce village that separates the two Koreas, the parties agreed to a North Korean request to provide the equivalent of half that amount in materials to rebuild power plants and other facilities. It will still receive 500,000 tonnes in heavy fuel, a South Korean envoy to the talks said. http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSSEO18710920071030