US-DPRK Nuclear Pact Effectively Dead, Says Powell

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US-DPRK Nuclear Pact Effectively Dead, Says Powell

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The Bush administration considers the 1994 nuclear accord between the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) effectively dead, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday.

Powell told NBC's "Meet the Press" that during a meeting between US and DPRK officials in Pyongyang earlier this month, the DPRK officials "blamed us for their actions and then said they considered that agreement nullified."

"An agreement between two parties, one of whom says it's been nullified, makes it sort of a nullified agreement," Powell said.

Under the framework agreement signed in October, 1994, the two sides agreed to cooperate in replacing the DPRK's graphite-moderated nuclear plants with light-water reactors and move toward full normalization of their political and economic relations.

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