Today North Korea agreed to return to six party negotiations on ending its nuclear weapons program.
Last month, North Korea agreed to a series of steps, including a moratorium on long-range missile launches.
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The present controversy is over a 1994 deal in which North Korea agreed to freeze its nuclear-weapons programme in return for the supply of fuel oil.
Five years ago, when North Korea agreed to freeze and eventually abandon its plutonium production, many outsiders suspected that it had secretly produced a couple of bombs.
In exchange, North Korea agreed to stop running its smaller reactor and promised to allow the previously blocked international inspections, but only at some time in the future.
Nor has North Korea agreed to cease exporting missiles and nuclear technology a dangerous omission given that North Korea helped Syria build a nuclear reactor and provided Iran with missiles.
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After a visit to North Korea, the US politician, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, said North Korea agreed to let international monitors back into the country to inspect its nuclear sites.
In a deal in September 2005, and in an accord to implement it in February 2007, North Korea agreed to end its nuclear programme in exchange for a basket of treats.
On August 13th, for example, a North Korean foreign ministry spokesman threatened a pull-out from the 1994 agreement under which North Korea agreed to suspend its nuclear-weapons programme and submit to international inspection of its nuclear facilities.
In 1994, North Korea agreed to stop making plutonium, in return for which America and its allies would supply the country with fuel oil and build two Western-designed light-water nuclear reactors (since it is a bit harder to produce weapons-grade materials from such reactors than from the ones North Korea had been building).
American officials accuse North Korea of breaking a 1994 agreement, in which North Korea agreed to halt its production of plutonium in return for America, Japan, South Korea and other countries providing the impoverished country with fuel oil and, later, nuclear reactors to produce electric power but of a type that would make it harder for North Korea to extract plutonium for weapons.
North Korea had agreed to disable the reactor that had produced plutonium for nuclear weapons.
Now, North Korea has agreed to allow inspections of its nuclear plants.
North Korea agreed then to halt the development of nuclear weapons but abandoned that accord and withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2003.
Meanwhile, Chinese officials reported that North Korea has agreed to disable its main nuclear reactor and give full details of its nuclear programme by the end of the year.
In a deal with America ten years ago, North Korea had agreed to stop making plutonium, in return for which America and its allies would supply the country with fuel and build two nuclear electricity generators from which it is difficult to produce weapons-grade materials.
You went to North Korea, and he agreed to come to the South but he never lived up to his half of the bargain.
Last year, as the financing for two new nuclear reactors in North Korea was about to be agreed on by America, South Korea, Japan and others, the North fired a three-stage rocket, unannounced, over Japan.
North Korea has not agreed to comply with the NPT - pursuant to whose terms it is supposed to remain a non-nuclear state.
In exchange for energy and financial assistance, North Korea last year agreed to shut down its Yongbyon nuclear reactor and declare the scope of its nuclear program.
Although it has allowed America, grudglingly and of course in return for still more food aid, to check that it is keeping to the letter of the nuclear agreement, North Korea has so far agreed to halt tests only while talks continue.
"We again urge North Korea to maintain the agreed stance of mutual respect and to stop its verbal attacks and actions that are raising tensions on the Korean peninsula, " Kim said.
Recall that North Korea's biggest nuclear advances came from 2001 to 2006 after the Bush administration scuttled the 1994 Agreed Framework and attempted to coerce North Korea into surrender or collapse.
On Wednesday, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said that a U.S. team, including technical experts, will head to North Korea next week, after the communist country agreed to begin the process.
North Korea agreed in principle in September to abandon its nuclear weapons program, and, for the moment, Mr. Bush seems ready to let at least a few days of diplomatic discussion work their course.
The Clinton administration and its allies agreed to supply North Korea with two light-water nuclear reactors, oil, and security guarantees.
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Both countries agreed that North Korea's announcement to test-fire its long-range missile is a violation of U.N.
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At issue is a 1994 deal between North Korea and America, under which the North agreed to freeze and then dismantle its plant for making bomb-usable plutonium (inspectors had discovered that it had made more than it had owned up to, but still do not know how much).
Since then, a number of countries, including Britain, Germany, Spain and Italy, have agreed to open diplomatic relations with North Korea, and Madeleine Albright, Mr Clinton's secretary of state, visited Pyongyang.
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