On the recordJuly 26, 1996
This amendment, now amended in the second degree by Senators Murkowski and McCain, would enable the President to fulfill the promise made as part of the agreed framework signed in October 1994 to avoid the escalating probability of the North Koreans attaining nuclear capability and perhaps entering into a conflict with South Korea. A conflict, a major regional conflict on the Korean Peninsula, as Secretary Perry would say, would put countless lives in jeopardy and would cost billions of dollars. For $25 million, we have the opportunity to continue an agreement which, thus far, the North Koreans, at least as to the nuclear component, have kept.
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