The major diplomatic efforts were the 1994 Agreed Framework and the six-party talks starting from 2003
•For the 1994 Agreed Framework, it was signed between the US and DPRK. It tried to freeze and replace DPRK nuclear plant with light water reactor power plants which are more proliferation resistant. It also tried to adopt a step-by-step normalization of relations between the US and DPRK
•Implementation of the Agreement was troubled since the very beginning and it broke down in 2002/2003