If the reactor isn't connected to the power grid, then it contributes nothing to easing their energy shortage. Even if it were connected to the grid, 5 megawatts is a very small amout of electricity on a national scale. By way of comparison, we have several conventional powerplants located around here. The smallest one produces about 300 megawatts.

When North Korea agreed in 1994 to stop their weapons program, we agreed to send them 500,000 tons of oil a year. We did it, too, including a final shipment of some 70,000 tons just a week or so after they admitted to cheating on the agreement. In addition, we sent them countless tons of food for their starving population.

It is now known that they cheated on the agreement for years. Are you actually gullible enough to think that we should continue to send them all the oil and food they demand even after they were caught cheating? Carter and Clinton's appeasement plan failed miserably - North Korea revived their weapons program years ago (long before Bush 43 took office) and we're supposed to blindly keep honoring our side of the agreement? What kind of absurd idiocy is that?

Oh, and I found confirmation of my facts, unlike you who spouts off any drivel you want without providing proof of anything.

Here's a link from the BBC confirming the 5 megawatt figure. It's at the bottom of the article before and in the graphic:

International concern over North Korea's intentions has been growing since it expelled two UN inspectors last month, and re-activated some of its nuclear facilities at Yongbyon.



Yongbyon: Five-megawatt experimental nuclear power reactor and a partially completed plutonium extraction facility. Activities at site frozen under 1994 Agreed Framework



Here's a link from the Federation of American Scientists website (by no means a right-wing source) on the Yongbyon reactor not believed to be connected to the power grid and being dedicated to weapons production:

The two higher power reactors under construction at Yongbon and Taechon were expected to yield another 200 kilograms of plutonium annually -- enough plutonium for about 50 atomic bombs per year. The reactor facilities reportedly were not attached to a power grid, increasing concern that the facilities were intended to produce material for making nuclear weapons rather than for producing electricity.

Try actually reading some credible sources for a change rather than spouting your pathetic drivel.