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March 14, 2002
Last week, American newspapers carried reports of a Pentagon review that named seven countries, including North Korea and China, on a list of potential U.S. nuclear targets.
North Korea issued a statement on Thursday saying that if these reports were accurate, it may need to review all its deals with Washington.
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North Korea is among those countries the U.S. suspects of seeking to develop nuclear weapons -- a prospect that brought the two countries to the brink of conflict in 1994.
At the time, subsequent reports have revealed, Pentagon planners drew up a detailed blueprint for an attack on the North's weapons facilities.
The plans given to then President Bill Clinton said that any military action would likely spark a conflict resulting in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides of the Korean peninsula.
Military action was eventually averted when a diplomatic deal was brokered in which the North agreed to freeze its nuclear program -- never admitting how far it had progressed -- in exchange for oil supplies and Western aid in the construction of new peacetime nuclear reactors.
Since coming to power last year however, the Bush administration has been skeptical about the value of that deal, saying it amounts in effect to paying North Korea not to develop nuclear weapons without adequate guarantees of compliance.
August 7, 2002
The United States has called on Pyongyang to live up to its side of a nuclear deal as work began on the foundations of a U.S-led nuclear power plant project for North Korea.
On Wednesday a concrete pouring ceremony was held to mark the start of construction on the foundations of the first of two light-water reactors at the Kumho site on the east coast of North Korea.
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The consortium is still waiting for North Korea to allow in inspectors so that the reactors can be completed by the end of the decade.
The White House has remained firm on the issue, arguing that it is necessary for Pyongyang to allow the inspections before critical work continues on the light water reactor. North Korea has not yet agreed to that demand.
The project is already several years behind schedule.
October 3, 2002
A senior U.S. envoy has begun a second day of talks in Pyongyang aimed at ending two years of deadlock in relations with North Korea.
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Relations between the U.S. and North Korea peaked late in late 2000 during the final months of the Clinton presidency with a landmark visit to Pyongyang by then U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
However, following the change of administration, President George W. Bush ordered a freeze on all contacts and a thorough review of North Korean promises to halt its development of weapons of mass destruction in return for U.S. assistance in the construction of two nuclear power plants.
Relations between the two sides took a further dive when Bush, in his State of the Union address earlier this year, labeled North Korea as part of an "axis of evil" along with Iran and Iraq.
That sparked an angry reaction from North Korea, which in turn labeled the United States the single biggest threat to world peace.
In recent months however, relations have shown signs of a thaw with Pyongyang apparently making signals that it is willing to ease tensions.
October 17, 2002
North Korea has revealed to the United States that it has a secret and active nuclear weapons program begun years after it promised to never again to pursue such a course, the White House said late Wednesday.
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North Korea confirmed U.S. suspicions earlier this month during a high-level U.S. visit to Pyongyang, led by James Kelly, assistant secretary of state for Asian affairs.
The senior official said the revelation came in a meeting between Kelly and a top North Korean official, Kang Suk Ju, described as the equivalent of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's right-hand man. These were the first such high level discussions between the two nations in two years.
The official said Kelly told Kang that the United States knew the country had a secret nuclear weapons program using "different technology" from that used prior to 1994, and that North Korea had saved enough plutonium for at least two nuclear weapons.
The North Korean official then shocked Kelly when he looked at him and said "something to the effect of, 'Your president called us a member of the axis of evil. ... Your troops are deployed on the Korean peninsula. ... Of course, we have a nuclear program,'" according to the senior administration source, who was briefed on the meeting.
"They are in material breach of the agreed framework," said White House spokesman Sean McCormack.
"We seek a peaceful resolution of this situation," McCormack said, according to the AP. "Everyone in the region has a stake in this issue and no peaceful nation wants to see a nuclear-armed North Korea."
November 14, 2002
The international consortium charged with implementing a 1994 energy agreement with North Korea agreed Thursday to suspend fuel oil deliveries to the Communist nation after revelations last month it has a secret nuclear weapons program.
The executive board of the Korean Energy Development Organization (KEDO) -- which consists of the United States, South Korea, Japan and the European Union -- condemned North Korea's pursuit of a nuclear weapons program, which violates its obligations under the 1994 agreement.
December 21, 2002
North Korea has confirmed it has cut most of the seals placed on a deactivated nuclear reactor by international inspectors and has blocked monitoring equipment at the reactor.
The decision was first announced Saturday by the International Atomic Energy Agency, a U.N. body based in Vienna, Austria.
IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei "expressed 'deep regret' at the DPRK's (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) actions of December 21 to cut most of the seals and impede the functioning of surveillance equipment installed at the 5MW(e) reactor at Nyongbyong."
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