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As part of the resolution of the 1994 Korean Nuclear Crisis, the United States and other countries agreed to supply the DPRK with two 1,000 megawatt pressurized water reactors under the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization. They were slated to come online by 2003, but opposition in the United States Congress and various delays meant that work only started in 2000.

What if the KEDO reactors had been completed in 2003 (as scheduled) or around 2008, when they likely would have been completed under the revised schedule? Would the KEDO reactors have made the DPRK dependent enough on enriched fuel imports and an improved energy situation that it would not pursue nuclear weapons, or would the DPRK have gone on to develop them anyways? Would the DPRK be able to operate the KEDO reactors by itself for power and/or plutonium production?
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