South Korea’s efforts to improve ties with Moscow owed much to then Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev’s reform policy of perestroika. Three months after Gorbachev met then South Korean President Roh Tae-woo in San Francisco, Moscow announced its decision to establish formal ties with South Korea on Sept. 30, 1990.
Angered by Moscow’s decision, North Korea warned Soviet officials that it would withdraw from the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and develop nuclear weapons, according to
a 2003 memoirs written by Alexandr Kaputo, a former Soviet envoy to North Korea.North Korea subsequently carried out its threat, triggering the first nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula in 1993. A deal, signed with the United States the next year, defused the tension but a new crisis erupted in 2002 when U.S. officials accused Pyongyang of pushing a new arms program by enriching uranium, a claim denied by the North.
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Well, apparently the June 2000 accord was never implemented due to, as only KCNA can put it, ??international tourism of tunnels.’
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/200...../26.htm#11
Now that we know it was the fault of the Russians the NK went nuclear, I sincerely hope this type of propaganda will be corrected to the proper scapegoat:
http://www.korea-dpr.com/faq.htm#11
11. I want to know why North Korea has nuclear weapons. Why?After the US failed to fulfill the terms in the Agreed Framework by supplying two light-water reactors to the DPRK as compensation for the discontinuing of Korean nuclear power, the DPRK withdrew in October 2002 from the NPT and thus restarted its own energy-producing program, and then started to recycle spent fuel-rods.
The DPRK has a nuclear deterrence as a life-insurance to protect the motherland. The US, who put the country inside the “Axis of Evil”, and is threatening with a nuclear holocaust pre-emptive strike has created this situation and made this neccessary. The situation is no less serious because the US side has nuclear weapons and other missiles stationed in South Korea.
The so-called “six-party talks” has not yeilded a solution, due to the recless demands of the US side who wants to disarm the DPRK without the intention to sign a non-aggression pact and with the intention of launching an attack against the DPRK.