Remember the good ole days when the Bush administration derided former president Clinton's efforts to negotiate a deal whereby North Korea would forego producing enriched, nuclear-weapon-grade materials in exchange for various forms of aid, most importantly energy and economic aide?
That was called the Agreed Framework.
On October 21, 1994, the United States and North Korea signed an agreement-the Agreed Framework-calling upon Pyongyang to freeze operation and construction of nuclear reactors suspected of being part of a covert nuclear weapons program in exchange for two proliferation-resistant nuclear power reactors. The agreement also called upon the United States to supply North Korea with fuel oil pending construction of the reactors. An international consortium called the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) was formed to implement the agreement.
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