Second, one should note that the only thing unequivocally demanded of the North Koreans was their “freezing” their existing nuclear reactors, and this did take place. Reprocessing of any kind is prohibited by the North-South Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, but so far as the Agreed Framework is concerned North Korea was only required in Clause 3 to “consistently take steps” to implement this Declaration. While maintaining a separate reprocessing program while freezing only acknowledged nuclear reactors clearly goes against the spirit of the Agreed Framework, according to the letter of the agreement North Korea does seem to have enough wiggle room to maintain, as it does, that the Agreed Framework requires unequivocally only the freezing of these reactors.