KEDO, the consortium masterminding the project, which is led by America but includes South Korea, Japan and the European Union, to find the money for the interim fuel deliveries.

ECONOMIST: South Korea and America

KEDO, the organisation responsible for building two nuclear reactors and making interim deliveries of fuel oil in return for a freeze on the North's production of plutonium, from which nuclear bombs can be made.

ECONOMIST: Europe in the world

KEDO's job is a thankless one.

ECONOMIST: More cash for KEDO, please | The

KEDO, the American-led consortium supposed to master-mind the project, and which also includes South Korea, Japan and the European Union, has to beg and scrape each year to find the cash for the 500, 000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil promised to North Korea to tide it over until electricity from the two new reactors comes on stream.

ECONOMIST: America and North Korea