[3][4][5] It led to North Korea and the United States signing the Agreed Framework in October 1994, effectively ending the crisis.

[2] North Korea's involvement in the NPT dates back to December 1985, when it signed the treaty, around the same it built its first reactor.

[7] Although IAEA inspectors were allowed to inspect some of these facilities, many were still closed off as North Korea claimed that they had military secrets, leading to suspicion that they were for a Nuclear weapons program.

[8] After months of disagreements over the 1991 inspection agreements, Pyongyang announced on 12 March 1993 that they would plan to pull out from the NPT Treaty.

After pressuring for dialogue to resume between it and Pyongyang, in December, the US demands that the seven nuclear sites in North Korea be opened to inspectors.

Park Yong Su, a North Korean negotiator threatened to turned Seoul into a "sea of flames".

[12] Kim Yong-sam would later claim in 2009 that there were "33 destroyers and two aircraft carriers" of the US Navy in the Sea of Japan waiting to strike North Korea.