U.S.'s 5 Point Proposal to North Korea

In the recent round of 6-way talks with North Korea, the U.S. proposed a number of terms and incentives. They include an offer to supply much needed heavy fuel oil; a provisional security guarantee; longer-term energy aid; direct talks about the lifting of economic sanctions and removing North Korea from its list of terrorist states; and retraining of NK nuclear scientists during a three-month prep prior to dismantlement of the current facilities.

One key point in the U.S. proposal was a guarantee not to invade the North or seek to topple the Kim Jong-il regime if Pyongyang carried out the nuclear freeze as a first step toward full denuclearization.

North Korea has proposed a promise to freeze all of its nuclear facilities and reprocessed nuclear materials if the U.S. supported the resumed construction of the halted 2,000,000-kilowatt nuclear power plants begun under the old 1990s agreement. This new generation of nuclear power plant, unlike the current North Korean plant, does not produce by-products capable of being converted into weapons-grade materials .

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