1994 negotiations averting nuclear crisis

“In October 1994, the United States and North Korea signed the Framework Agreement. North Korea agreed to suspend its nuclear program in exchange for fuel aid and two light water nuclear reactors to be built by 2003.

While the agreement helped avert a crisis, it didn’t last. Eight years later, North Korea acknowledged that it had begun a secret uranium enrichment program presumably to develop nuclear weapons—an apparent violation of the Framework Agreement.”

- Ray Suarez talks to the negotiators who penned the 1994 agreement with North Korea that averted a nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula.

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