It decided not to increase the amount of unilateral and unconditional aid to the North -- which has grown dramatically under the earlier leftist-nationalist administrations -- unless North Korea makes some concessions, too.

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Developments in Moscow over the past twenty-four hours should give serious pause to those who propose to give Russia urgent, unconditional aid in the name of "saving" Boris Yeltsin and his "reform" program.

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That will be used as a precedent by the North to seek more unconditional aid, says Hwang Jang Yop, who was the architect of North Korea's ideology of juche (self-sufficiency) before he defected to the South last year.

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