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Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Chronology of N.Korea's nuke weapons - Yahoo! News
Chronology of N.Korea's nuke weapons - Yahoo! News:
"By The Associated Press Mon Feb 12, 11:22 PM ET
A timeline of nuclear weapons development in North Korea:
_1993: North Korea says it will quit the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, later suspends its withdrawal.
_1994: North Korea, United States sign agreement in Geneva. The North pledges to freeze and eventually dismantle its plutonium-based nuclear weapons program in exchange for help building two power-producing nuclear reactors.
_Sept. 17, 1999: President Clinton agrees to first major easing of economic sanctions against North Korea since the Korean War's end in 1953.
• Oct. 23-24, 2000: Secretary of State Madeleine Albright visits Pyongyang in trip by highest-ranking U.S. official ever to North Korea.
_Jan. 29, 2002: President Bush labels North Korea, Iran and Iraq an 'axis of evil.'
_Oct. 4: North Korea tells visiting U.S. delegation "