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Originally Posted by WarChild
They did it in both of those years AND in 1998 or so when they first started the nuclear program.
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This is not the first crisis concerning North Korea?s development of nuclear weapons. In 1985, North Korea joined the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), which requires non-nuclear states to forswear the development and acquisition of nuclear weapons. But in 1992, International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors discovered that North Korea had diverted plutonium for a weapons program in violation of its treaty commitments. In 1993, amid demands for special inspections, North Korea announced its intention to withdraw from the NPT. The crisis was resolved in 1994 when the United States and North Korea signed the Agreed Framework, under which Pyongyang committed to freezing its illicit plutonium weapons program in exchange for two proliferation-resistant nuclear reactors and additional aid.
in 1994, an agreement was reached and the world (mainly the US) began sending Oil, food, medicine etc as they were in the middle of a massive famine. Shortly thereafter, it was discovered that they had built a second facility and had never slowed down their program at all.
since then, they've been threatening war off and on and demanding aid at the same time and some of you might remember in 02 (i think) when they kicked out the IAEA inspectors again, against all treaties and then threatened the US with war if the US stopped its oil/food and other aid to them as a consequence.
this guy should have been dealt with severely, long ago... and he needs to be dealt with severely today.