| Center for International Policy (1842 words) |
 | Kim Yong-nam has dismissed suggestions that North Korea - or a unified Korea - would refuse to give up nuclear weapons capabilities because neighbouring Russia and China are both nuclear powers and Japan might yet become one. |
| Kim Jong-il needs a nuclear deal with the US in order to open up an influx of aid, trade and investment. |
| His second meeting with Kim in 1994 set the stage for the nuclear freeze agreement that was negotiated a week later by then-US president Jimmy Carter; it was the breakdown of this agreement in December 2002 that led to the current nuclear crisis. |
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