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Collapse of the Agreed Framework?

Kelly's Pyongyang Visit and North Korea's Confession

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Kim Jong Il visiting the Academy of Sciences, a suspected site for the NK HEU program, on 1 January 1999.

By Daniel A. Pinkston

A White House spokesman declared that North Korea is in "material breach" of the Agreed Framework, and the agreement could now be null and void. It is too early to tell whether the Agreed Framework can be resuscitated because the willingness of both parties to negotiate a new deal is uncertain.

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CNS Experts on DPRK:

  • Daniel Pinkston | Bio
    Senior Research Associate, Proliferation Research and Assessment Program (PRAP)
    daniel.pinkston@miis.edu

  • Clay Moltz | Bio
    Associate Director of the CNS; Director of the Newly Independent States Nonproliferation Program (NISNP)
    cmoltz@miis.edu

  • Leonard Spector | Bio
    Deputy Director of the CNS, Washington, D.C. Office
    leonard.spector@miis.edu

  • Timothy McCarthy | Bio
    Director of the Proliferation Research and Assessment Program (PRAP)
    tmccarthy@miis.edu


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Author(s): Daniel A. Pinkston
Related Resources: Nuclear, Missile, N. Korea, East Asia, Treaties, Weekly Story
Date Created: October 21, 2002
Date Updated: -NA-
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