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The list of sources below may assist students in coming to understand the threat posed by the nuclear weapons program of North Korea.  Additional sources on this website include a background timeline on U.S.-Korean relations, the text of the 1994 Agreed Framework understanding reached by the U.S. and North Korea, and a timeline of developments in relations between the two countries in the years after the signing of the Agreed Framework, focusing on the nuclear question.

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Associated Press, "N. Korean Leader, Chinese Aide Discuss Arms," Washington Post (March 25, 2004): 20.

BBC, "Country Profile: North Korea," (London UK: British Broadcasting Corporation, 2005): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1131421.stm

BBC, "Full Text: N. Korea Nuclear Agreement" (London UK: British Broadcasting Corporation, Sept. 19, 2005).  (alternate permanent link)

Congressional Quarterly, "CIA Deputy Director John E. McLaughlin's Speech on the Status of North Korea," (Washington: CQ Public Affairs Collection, April 17, 2001) (http://proxy.mbc.edu:2074/cqpac/document.php?id=hsdc01-93-3612-181280&type=hitlist&num=3&,).

CNN.com, “Special Report North Korea Nuclear Tension,” (http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/nkorea/, 2003)

Selig Harrison, "Did North Korea Cheat?" Foreign Affairs (January / February 2005).

Hyun In-Taek, “Second North Korean Nuclear Crisis: Resolution or Catastrophe?” Korea Focus (September/ October, 2003): http://www.kf.or.kr/koreafocus/essays.asp?vol=30&no=838&section=1,

Park Jong-chul, “Impact of U.S. War against Terrorism on the Korean Peninsula", Korea Focus, 10, 1 (January/February 2002): 59-71. (http://www.kf.or.kr/koreafocus/essays.asp?vol=17&no=535&section=2).

Paul Kerr, “North Korea Admits Secret Nuclear weapons Program,” Arms Control Today, (http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2002_11/nkoreanov02.asp, November 2002) 

Paul Kerr, “North Korea Extends Missile-Test Moratorium; U.S. to Send Kelly,”Arms Control Today, (http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2002_10/nkoreaoct02.asp, October 2002).

Glenn Kesler, "Longtime Statesman Puts Best Face Forward for U.S.," Washington Post (Sept. 21, 2005): A21.

Glenn Kesler, "What that Accord Really Says," Washington Post (Sept 25, 2005): B2.  Clause by clause analysis of the meanings hidden in the language used in the 2005 U.S. - North Korean nuclear agreement.

Tong Kim, "You Say Okjeryok, I say Deterrent," Washington Post (Sept 25, 2005): B1-B2.  Official U.S. interpreter comments on the signals and missed signals sent in U.S. -Korea negotiations he witnessed over many years.

Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, “Agreed Framework: U.S.-DPRK: Geneva 1994 ”, The Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO), (http://www.kedo.org/pdfs/AgreedFramework.pdf, October 21, 1994).

Fames T. Laney, "How to deal with North Korea", Foreign Affairs, (March/April 2003): 16-30.

Sen. John McCain, (editorial on North Korea), Washington Post, (October 24, 2002).

Michael O'Hanlon and Mike Mochizuki, Crisis on the Korean Peninsula: How to Deal With a Nuclear North Korea (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003).

Chung Oknim, “Outlook for Bush Administration’s North Korea Policy,” Korea Focus, (http://www.kf.or.kr/koreafocus/essays.asp?vol=12&no=392&section=1, (March/April, 2001).

Mitchell B. Reiss, Robert Gallucci, et. al., "Red Handed," Foreign Affairs (March / April 2205).

Task Force on U.S. Korea Policy, “The Nuclear Crisis on the Korean Peninsula: Avoiding the Road to Perdition,” Current History, v102, n663 (April 2003): 152-169.

U.S. Department of State, “North Korean Nuclear Program,” (Http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2002/14432pf.htm, (October 16, 2002).

Alex Wagner, “Bush Puts N. Korea Negotiations On Hold, Stresses Verification,” Arms Control Today, (http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2001_04/korea.asp (April 2001).

 

Alex Wagner, “Bush Outlines Terms For Resuming Talks With North Korea,” Arms Control Today, (http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2001_07-08/northkoreajul_aug01.asp, July/August 2001).

“Full Text: North Korea’s Statement on its Nuclear Arms Program,” Washington Post (February 10, 2005): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13987-2005Feb10_2.html

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