Originally posted by Fatty
N Korea 'announced' as a result of being confronted with evidence of it, it's not like they just decided to reveal their weapons program.
exactly:
"After a U.S. delegation confronted North Korea with evidence of a uranium-based program in that country with enough plutonium for at least two nuclear weapons, North Korea admitted to a top U.S. diplomat two weeks ago that it has had a secret nuclear weapons program.
Because of the admission, the White House said Sunday it considers the 1994 Agreed Framework effectively dead. The agreement called for the United States to provide energy assistance to North Korea in exchange for Pyongyang's promise to stop seeking to develop nuclear weapons. "
http://www.armscontrol.org/documents/af.asphttp://cisac.stanford.edu/news/pressrelease.html"The 1994 Agreed Framework (AF) between the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has become the centerpiece of recent US efforts to reduce the threat of conflict on the Korean peninsula. Under the AF, the US and its allies (mainly South Korea) will provide the DPRK with two large nuclear-power reactors and other benefits such as annual shipments of fuel oil for the generation of electricity until the nuclear-power reactors being built for that purpose are able to do so. In exchange the DPRK will declare how much nuclear weapon-usable material it has produced; identify, freeze, and eventually dismantle specified facilities for producing this material; and remain a party to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and allow the implementation of its safeguards agreement."
lying, sneaking nk's - if they so much as blinked now, they'd be glass - handsomehunkes