SOUTH KOREA: SOUTH KOREAN OIL REFINERY LOADS TANKER BOUND FOR NORTH KOREA AS PART OF PEACE DEAL

Record ID: 344807

  • Title: SOUTH KOREA: SOUTH KOREAN OIL REFINERY LOADS TANKER BOUND FOR NORTH KOREA AS PART OF PEACE DEAL
  • Date: 11th January 1995
  • Summary: YOCHON, SOUTH KOREA (JANUARY 11, 1995) (REUTERS TELEVISION - AVAILABLE ALL) 1. SV CHINESE SHIP AT DOCK (4 SHOTS) 0.16 2. SV CHINESE CREW ON SHIP TAKING PICTURES 0.18 3. SV PIPES ON SHIP (2 SHOTS) 0.27 4. SV CREW OPERATING ROPES 0.31 5. SV PIPE BEING ATTACHED TO CHINESE SHIP (5 SHOTS) 0.50 6. SV PHOTOGRAPHERS TAKING PICTURES 0.52 7. SV WORKERS CONECTING PIPES 1.05 8. SV WORKERS 1.09 9. SV OIL PIPES (2 SHOTS) 1.15 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 26th January 1995 12:00
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  • Location: YOCHON, SOUTH KOREA
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  • Country: South Korea
  • Reuters ID: LVA4EOIDY8OHQ0W97I7R71EZS6SS
  • Story Text: A South Korean oil refiner loaded a Chinese tanker on Wednesday (January 11) with oil bound for North Korea as part of a deal between Pyongyang and Washington designed to defuse suspicions surrounding the North's nuclear programme.

    A spokesman for Honam Oil Refinery said the 67,436-ton Da Qing was one of two tankers that would carry 50,000 tonnes of bunker C oil from the port of Yochon, 300 km (180 miles) south of Seoul, to the northeastern North Korean port of Sonbong.

    The tanker is expected to leave on Thursday (January 12), while a second ship, the Liberian-registered Lark Lake, leaves on Friday, the company official said.

    The oil is being shipped under a U.S.-North Korean deal in which the United States agreed to supply the North with oil in exchange for Pyongyang giving up building nuclear power plants that can yield bomb-grade plutonium.

    The United States (U.S.) Defense Department awarded Honam the oil supply contract, worth about 4.22 million (U.S.) dollars, to ship the oil between December 15 and 31. But delivery has been delayed several times at the request of the Pentagon, the Honam spokesman said.

    The deal, aimed at defusing Western fears over Pyongyang's nuclear programme, was thrown into some doubt after a U.S. military helicopter was shot down last month after straying into North Korean airspace.

    One of the helicopter pilots was killed and the other airman was held captive for two weeks before being released.


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