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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (53197)	10/19/2002 1:15:33 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Jimmy Carter pats himself on the back about Korea >>Mediating Conflict In June 1994, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter became the first people to cross the demilitarized zone from South Korea to North Korea and back again since the two were divided following the Korean War. President and Mrs. Carter had been invited by then-President Kim Il Sung to visit North Korea and went as representatives of The Carter Center with the hope of defusing a serious issue related to North Korea's nuclear program. The international climate at the time of the Carters' visit was growing increasingly heated, as fears mounted in the United States and other countries that North Korea was developing a nuclear arsenal. After the North Koreans had withdrawn their membership in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and threatened to expel the IAEA's inspectors, the United States began pushing for U.N. sanctions. Following two days of talks with President Carter, President Kim agreed to freeze North Korea's nuclear program in exchange for the resumption of a dialogue with the United States. That breakthrough led to the first dialogue between the United States and North Korea in 40 years. Subsequent talks between the two countries resulted in two agreements, reached on October 1994 and June 1995, in which North Korea agreed to neither restart its nuclear reactor nor reprocess the plant's spent fuel. Construction was halted on two additional plants, and all three will be replaced with safer light-water reactors, which cannot produce weapons-grade materials.<< cartercenter.org I guess Korea did not promise not to enrich uranium, so they had an "out."

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