tw that would be incorrect, would like you like to post some sources and links so we know which biased organizations are filling people's heads with shit?
The US share of the agreement money was tiny compared to S Korea and Japan's share. Congress did underfund the prject, but that isn't what held it up. You see, Before work really got going on the $6B project, N Korea acted belligerently towards S Korea, and well:
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/crs/91-141.htm
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The stepped-up pace in 1996 in the implementation of the nuclear provisions of the U.S.-North Korean Agreed Framework of October 1994 came to a halt in September 1996 because of a North Korean infiltration of commandos into South Korea by submarine. The commandos murdered several South Korean civilians. At the same time, evidence, albeit circumstantial, pointed to North Korean complicity in the assassination of a South Korean diplomat in Vladivostok, Russia. These actions were the latest in a succession of North Korean provocations that were contrary to the peace and security provisions of the Agreed Framework, which calls for improved security on the Korean peninsula and negotiations between North Korea and South Korea. The R.O.K. (Republic of Korea) government responded by demanding that North Korea apologize for the infiltration and guarantee that it will commit no further provocations.
South Korea announced that it was suspending its participation in the installation of two light water nuclear reactors in North Korea. ... North Korea responded by threatening to abrogate the Agreed Framework and start up its nuclear facilities, which are shut down under the Agreed Framework.
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Conditions improved, and the massive giveaway project went ahead anyway, albeit on a slower schedule. But before they could start the meaty part of the project,
N Korea suddenly announced that it had nuke programs.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/nkorea.html
Quote:
Construction of the light water reactors was to be performed under a turnkey contract with KEPCO, which was awarded in December 1999. Initial site preparation work had begun, and the concrete foundation at the site was laid in August 2002. Training of North Korean technicians who were to operate the reactors had begun in June 2002. The project had faced many delays, and the completion date for the first reactor has been pushed back to at least 2008, from an original completion date of 2003. ...
The disclosure by North Korea in October 2002 that it had a clandestine nuclear weapons program called into question the basis under the Agreed Framework for continuing construction of the reactors.
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And if N Korea had nuclear programs in October 2002, it had probably been violating the agreement all along.