U.S. and North Korea Sign Pact to End Nuclear Dispute [1994]

NY Times ^ | October 22, 1994 | ALAN RIDING

[matt1234]

After almost four months of difficult negotiations, the United States and North Korea signed an agreement today to end their dispute over North Korea's nuclear program but kept secret many details of how the accord will be put into effect.

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Under the broad agreement concluded here late Monday, North Korea will freeze its nuclear activities, renounce any ambition to become a nuclear power and open up two secret military sites to inspection by international experts so they can determine whether Pyongyang already has nuclear capability.

In exchange, an international consortium will replace North Korea's current graphite nuclear reactors with new light-water reactors, which are considered less dangerous because they produce little weapons-grade plutonium. The United States also agreed to low-level diplomatic ties with North Korea.

After the signing today, North Korea's chief negotiator, Kang Sok Ju, described it as "a very important milestone document of historic significance" that would resolve his country's nuclear dispute with the United States "once and for all."

He said the agreement, once put into effect, would resolve "all questions of the so-called nuclear weapons development by North Korea" that have raised "such unfounded concerns and suspicions."

"We have neither the intention nor the plan to develop nuclear weapons," Mr. Kang said.

At a news conference in Washington, President Clinton said the treaty was "a good deal for the United States."

[matt1234]

Let's not forget the NORKs' enablers from the Clinton era.

[God luvs America]

A toast to you madman albright and one of the dumbest administrations in the history of your nation!



"Lets all applaud tyrannical communist regimes!!

Dumb and dumber...the US Flag pin on her lapel was made by North Korean peasants evidently...

[dfwgator]

Roger Clinton was the original Dennis Rodman.

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