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Despite statements to the contrary, senior Clinton White House officials knew of serious cheating by the North Korean government shortly after it signed the Agreed (Nuclear) Framework in 1994. Clinton Secretary of Defense William Perry intentionally suppressed an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report submitted to its Board of Governors in late fall 1994 that raised serous questions about whether North Korea ever intended to abide by the Agreed Framework signed with the Clinton administration. In October 1994, the IAEA, under the U.S.-Korean agreement, sent a team to the North Korean nuclear center at Yongbyon to do a field survey. The team was led by Dimitri Perricos, a senior assistant to then IAEA Director-General Dr. Hans Blix.
The purpose of the Perricos visit was to begin the process of cataloging the equipment and materials at the site that were to be frozen under the agreement with the U.S. What Perricos found — or didn't find — raised serious concerns within weeks of the U.S.-Korean agreement. The White House was concerned about North Korea's construction of a massive, 50-megawatt nuclear reactor. Though Pyongyang insisted that the reactor was destined for "civilian" energy purposes, the CIA was convinced the reactor's main purpose was to build atomic bombs. Almost 10 times the size of the old Soviet-designed research reactor already in operation, the new reactor could produce enough bomb-grade material for 20 or more medium-size nuclear warheads a year, so said the CIA. Under the Agreed Framework, work was to be halted and the reactor eventually dismantled. |