FLASHBACK: Bush waives NK nuke inspection requirement.

[Sal316]

US grants N Korea nuclear funds
Wednesday, 3 April, 2002, 12:06 GMT 13:06 UK

The US Government has announced that it will release $95m to North Korea as part of an agreement to replace the Stalinist country's own nuclear programme, which the US suspected was being misused.
Under the 1994 Agreed Framework an international consortium is building two proliferation-proof nuclear reactors and providing fuel oil for North Korea while the reactors are being built.

In releasing the funding, President George W Bush waived the Framework's requirement that North Korea allow inspectors to ensure it has not hidden away any weapons-grade plutonium from the original reactors.

President Bush argued that the decision was "vital to the national security interests of the United States".

BBC News

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If anyone tells you Clinton blew it with NK, tell them to blow it out their ass.

Edited to add original story date.