Word: accords
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Signing Jimmy Carter's Camp David Accord...
After months of threats and confrontation, the U.S. and North Korea seemed closer to an agreement for overseeing Pyongyang's nuclear capabilities. Under the proposed accord, North Korea would reportedly freeze its nuclear-weapons program, allow for regular international inspections of its facilities and abide by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The U.S. in return would help Pyongyang meet its energy needs with coal and fuel oil and eventually help arrange for the construction of nuclear power plants worth billions of dollars...
...North Korea signed a historic accord that aims to make nuclear tension between the two countries a thing of the past. Chief U.S. negotiator Robert L. Gallucci and his North Korean counterpart, Kang Sok Ju, penned the documents at North Korea's diplomatic mission to the United Nations today. Included in the deal: North Korea opens up its hush-hush nuke program in return for technology for modern reactors, aid and diplomatic links with...
...into North Korea's nuke program won't start for five years. That's enough time for Kim Jong Il, the new chief in Pyongyang, to embark on a whole new nuke program if he so chooses -- and to do so with U.S. loans that come with today's accord. "A lot of people are holding their breath," says Thompson...
...that should resolve the conflict between the two countries over Pyongyang's nuclear program. Robert L. Gallucci, the chief American negotiator, said a draft would be sent to both capitals for approval from lawmakers, and a final document will probably be signed in Geneva on Friday. News of the accord was an abrupt reversal from just yesterday, when talks between the two countries were cut off. No details of the accord were available, but it's likely to build on provisions reached earlier: North Korea will offer to open its nuclear facilities to international inspection and scrap its outdated atomic...