KEDO appears to be the favorite whipping boy of Pyongyang, Republican aspirants, economists, and print journalism, so I would like to dispel a few myths about KEDO and appreciate the opportunity to do so. The Agreed Framework and KEDO have also changed the political and security landscape in Northeast Asia. No one would ever build an LWR to produce plutonium even though it theoretically possible to do so. The DPRK's graphite moderated reactors were designed for the specific purpose of creating weapons grade plutonium.
Electricity production is just a useful byproduct.
Production of small quantities of plutonium is an undesirable but unavoidable byproduct. Also, LWR's can only be refueled when they are shut down. The process of shutting down and removing the fuel to a reprocessing faculty, in view of plutonium extraction, is easily detectible. We have only about 38 months before it is time for the DPRK to have complied with its IAEA safeguards agreement. I suspect, completion of the LWR's will occur almost before the Administration might have completed the process of renegotiation of the Framework Agreement, as discussed in my previous point.