Editing Agreed Framework (section)

==Background==
[[File:Yongbyon 5 MWe reactor - fuel channels access ports.jpg|thumb|The 5 MWe pilot [[Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center|Yongbyon nuclear reactor]], made operational in 1986, showing the fuel access channels]]

{{Main|Timeline of the North Korean nuclear program|North Korea nuclear weapons program|1994 North Korean nuclear crisis}}

On 12 December 1985, North Korea became a party to the Treaty on the [[nuclear proliferation|Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons]] (NPT). On 10 April 1992, its NPT safeguards agreement entered into force. In May 1992, North Korea submitted its initial report to the IAEA under that agreement, and [[International Atomic Energy Agency]] (IAEA) inspections began. Shortly thereafter inconsistencies emerged between the North Korea initial declaration and the Agency's findings, centering on a mismatch between declared [[plutonium]] product and [[nuclear waste]] solutions and the results of the Agency's analysis. The latter suggested that undeclared plutonium existed in North Korea. In order to find answers to the inconsistencies detected and to determine the completeness and correctness of the initial declaration provided, the IAEA requested access to additional information and to two sites which seemed to be related to the storage of nuclear waste.<ref name=iaea-factsheet>{{cite web |url=http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/dprk/fact-sheet-on-dprk-nuclear-safeguards |title=Fact Sheet on DPRK Nuclear Safeguards |publisher=IAEA |date=14 October 2014 |access-date=30 November 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205004645/http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/dprk/fact-sheet-on-dprk-nuclear-safeguards |archive-date=5 December 2014 }}</ref> The DPRK refused access to the sites, and on 12 March 1993, North Korea announced its decision to withdraw from the NPT.

On 1 April 1993, the IAEA concluded that North Korea was in non-compliance with its Safeguards Agreement, and referred this to the UN Security Council. Following UN Security Council [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 825|resolution 825]], which called upon the DPRK to reconsider its decision to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and allow weapons inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) into the country, North Korea "suspended the effectuation" of that withdrawal in June 1993.<ref name=iaea-factsheet/><ref name=harrison-2009>{{cite book |page=209 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=csVMXWKo734C |title=Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement |author =Selig S. Harrison |author-link =Selig S. Harrison |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2009 |isbn=9781400824915 |access-date=30 November 2014}}</ref>

In November 1993, North Korea proposed to the United States that the two governments negotiate a "package solution" to all of the issues dividing them. The [[Clinton Administration]] accepted this in principle but conditioned such "comprehensive" talks on North Korea acting first to allow a resumption of IAEA inspections and to re-open negotiations with South Korea over nuclear questions (North Korea had broken off talks with South Korea in late 1992). North Korea approached the IAEA in January 1994, offering a single inspection, less comprehensive than those conducted by the IAEA in 1992. After several weeks of tough negotiations, the IAEA announced on 16 February 1994 that North Korea had accepted "the inspection activities" that the Agency had requested. In response, the Clinton Administration agreed to suspend the [[Team Spirit]] military exercise with South Korea (a long-standing North Korean demand) and begin a new round of talks with North Korea—subject to North Korea allowing full implementation of the IAEA inspection and beginning high level talks with South Korea.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fas.org/spp/starwars/crs/94-299f.htm |title=U.N. Security Council Consideration of North Korea's Violations of its Nuclear Treaty Obligations |access-date=2015-04-04 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150409003836/https://fas.org/spp/starwars/crs/94-299f.htm |archive-date=2015-04-09 }}</ref>