Mike Levin: “I oppose the bill's restrictions on funding for KEDO, and I urge my colleagues to support the Lieberman amendment. Last…”

“I oppose the bill's restrictions on funding for KEDO, and I urge my colleagues to support the Lieberman amendment. Last year you described the situation in North Korea with the so-called agreed framework that froze North Korea's nuclear weapons program, and explained that by freezing the program that we prevented North Korea from producing plutonium for weapons and from producing the weapons themselves. Has North Korea kept its nuclear weapons program frozen? Secretary Perry. Yes. Senator Levin. And if we had not entered into that agreed framework, where would North Korea's nuclear program be today, and where could it be, say, in 3 years? Secretary Perry. Had we not entered that program, we believe that they would have... All of those programs have been stopped. There is no such fuel being processed or generated today. Senator Levin. And I take it that that clearly is in our security interest in a very major way?”