That 1994 agreement was hammered out by former President Jimmy Carter, as shown here from his Nobel Prize biography and from Carter's appearance at Emory University and here from the Carter Center (if you choose to believe it).
The 1994 agreement promised the North Koreans two light water reactors if they abandoned their nuclear program. From Encarta
Throughout the first half of 1994, the North Korean government continued to resist a full IAEA inspection of alleged nuclear-weapon production sites. The crisis was defused in June, however, when former U.S. president Jimmy Carter met with Kim Il Sung in North Korea. The following month Kim died unexpectedly. Nevertheless, the United States and North Korea reached a framework agreement in 1994 in which North Korea agreed to permanently shut down facilities capable of making weapons-grade material and to allow IAEA inspections of its nuclear sites. In return, the United States agreed to assist North Korea in replacing two of its nuclear reactors with modern versions designed to produce less weapons-grade plutonium.
A formal agreement regarding construction of the reactors was signed in 1995. Under the agreement, a U.S.-led international consortium pledged to supervise and finance the project, estimated to cost $4.5 billion. Also under the framework, the United States agreed to finance annual deliveries of heavy fuel oil to North Korea until the new reactors were constructed, as compensation for the loss of energy the reactors had provided.
The oil shipments were suspended in 2002 after the West learned that North Korea was cheating on the 1994 agreement.
The multilateral agreement did involve food and oil shipments, but I have not seen any mention of the reactors.
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- North Korea Admits Having Nuclear Weapons
- Wow. That was fast.
- re: Wow. That was fast. Maybe they are going to reconcile the U235 program, which never stopped?
- I refer the honorable genteleman
- BTW...
- Really?
- They are hoping to get more attention with this non-news. (n/t)
- Wow. That was fast.
