Pyongyang violated its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by secretly reprocessing enough plutonium to produce two nuclear weapons in the early 1990’s. After it withdrew from a restraining agreement negotiated by the Clinton administration in 1994, it expelled International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors and began reprocessing spent fuel that could produce another six bombs’ worth of plutonium.
朝鲜的核武器计划已经困扰了全世界近二十年。平壤当局背弃了《核不扩散条约》的义务，并在1990年代初秘密重新提炼了足够的钚元素并制造了两颗原子弹。在1994年退出了由美国克林顿政府调停的限制性协议之后，朝鲜驱逐了国际原子能机构的监察人员并开始重新提炼核废料，生产了出足以另造6颗原子弹的钚。