According to an 18-page draft for the plan, which the Chosun Ilbo was able to acquire for an exclusive report, the United States Agency for International Development will give $80 million by 2006 to institutions promoting human rights, to be directed to efforts to reverse Pyongyang's rights abuses. Also, $2 million a year will go to North Korean religious groups active in the United States, Korea, and Japan, and $500,000 will be used every year to help institutions take care of North Korean orphans.

Also added in the draft is USAID's plan to back up private organizations sending provisions to North Korea by supporting them with $30 million every year until 2006. If the bill gets passed, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom will spend $350,000 a year sponsoring hearings in America's cities on the religious oppression in North Korea.

The draft also contains initiatives for "first asylum" policy that will guarantee refuge and security to North Korean fugitives. Some fugitives can obtain S-2 visas, which is given to people providing confidential information about countries producing weapons of mass destruction. The United States will also allocate P-2 status to the Korean fugitives.

Also, the draft would call for spending of $1 million per year to help Radio Free Asia and the Voice of America broadcast 24 hours a day and provide various radio programs to North Koreans.

Significantly, the plan would possibly inhibit financial aid to countries that have records of sending money instead of humanitarian support to North Korean government or institutions.

Lastly, a "task force" team will be established to monitor criminal activities by the North and submit reports on the North's human rights situation.

Working on the draft are the senators Richard Lugar, John Kyl, Sam Brownback and Edward Kennedy and the Congressmen Henry Hyde and Christopher Cox. Brownback sent a letter to President George W. Bush, seeking administrative support for the draft. (Joo Yong-jung, midway@chosun.com )