U.S.-North Korea Agreed Framework
Major Provisions and Implementation
On October 21, 1994, the United States and North Korea signed an agreement 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 civilian nuclear power reactors — or "light-water reactors" (LWRs) — whose byproducts cannot easily be used in the development of nuclear weapons. The terms of the deal, known as the Agreed Framework, are being implemented by an international consortium called the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO). The Agreed Framework ended an 18-month crisis during which North Korea announced its intention to…
