Seoul's Mystery Proposal Includes Massive Energy Aid

Well now. I wondered what the price was for getting the DPRK back to the table, and now we know.

Unification Minister Chung Dong-young, who put the proposal to North Korean
leader Kim Jong-il behind closed doors last month, disclosed its contents to
reporters on Tuesday after a National Security Council meeting chaired by
President Roh Moo-hyun.

Under the proposal, annual shipments of 500,000 tons of heavy oil suspended
after North Korea's uranium enrichment program came to light in October 2002
would resume, with the cost shared between the five nations.

In the long term, South Korea would supply its surplus energy directly to
North Korea -- reportedly 2 million kilowatts, or the amount that would have
been produced by the two 1 million kilowatt reactors that were to have been
built under the 1994 Basic Agreement between North Korea and the U.S.
Construction of the reactors has been suspended.

So not only is the south giving the North food to support its people *cough ARMY cough* but now they are going to send "surplus" energy !!?? I always thought the South was a net imported of energy (looks at electricity bill). Wow, things 'dun changed.