Since the framework agreement with Iran was signed by Tehran, Washington and other world powers, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has focused on the 1994 agreement with North Korea which was also intended to curtail that country's development of nuclear weapons.
On October 12 of that year, an “Agreement Framework” was signed with the North Koreans that traded two light-water reactors, fuel oil, and economic cooperation for the North to freeze plutonium production. Within two weeks, then-IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Director Hans Blix testified to the British Parliament his organization was worried it gave the North Koreans too much time to begin complying with the agreement.
"I am very concerned that the Lausanne framework would repeat and is repeating these mistakes," Prime Minister Netanyahu said in a meeting with South Korean Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Hwang Woo-yea yesterday in Jerusalem. "I think that freeze and inspect is not an adequate substitute for dismantle and remove."(READ MORE)
