Lawmakers: Time To Terminate Agreed Framework With North Korea

By Keith Costa / October 18, 2002 at 5:00 AM
A group of three influential lawmakers yesterday called for the immediate termination of the 1994 U.S.-North Korean Agreed Framework given this week's revelation that Pyongyang has been operating a clandestine nuclear weapons program for several years. At a Capitol Hill press briefing, Reps. Christopher Cox (R-CA), House Policy Committee chairman, and Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA), co-chairman of the Bipartisan Nonproliferation Task Force, along with Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), said the 1994 deal was an "inherently bad idea" because it would...

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