In the immediate post-Cold War period, China cooperated with other concerned parties in the process of resolving the first North Korea nuclear crisis of 1993-1994; but it tended to regard the North’s nuclear ambitions mainly as a bilateral issue between North Korea and the US. President Bill Clinton seemed to agree, and adopted a bilateral approach to the nuclear crisis, which resulted in the two countries’ Agreed Framework of 1994.
冷张时代结束伊始，1993—1994年中国就与其他相关方面合作解决了第一次朝鲜核危机；但它倾向于将朝鲜和野心视为主要是朝鲜和美国的之间的双边问题。美国总统克林顿似乎也这样认为，并对朝鲜核危机采取双边主义方法，并于1994年与朝鲜达成框架协议。