1994 North Korean nuclear crisis (original) (raw)

The 1994 North Korean nuclear crisis was a crisis on the Korean Peninsula, mainly revolving around North Korea's nuclear program. Largely caused by North Korea's announcement that it would withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1993 the tensions could have led to a war between North Korea and the US had not been for an agreement reached between Former President Jimmy Carter and then leader Kim Il-Sung. It led to North Korea and the United States signing the Agreed Framework in October 1994, effectively ending the crisis.