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.
Poté odstoupil od dohody o neútočení dojednané v roce 1994 Clintonovou administrativou, vyhostil inspektory Mezinárodní agentury pro atomovou energii a začal zpracovávat vyhořelé palivo, z něhož by se dalo vyrobit plutonium do dalších šesti pum.