Headline : US saw NKs call for light water reactors as significant opening in nuclear talks: declassified dossier

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Robert Gallucci, a former U.S. special envoy to North Korea, speaks in the National Assembly, Seoul, Dec. 18, 2017. Yonhap

The United States had believed that North Korea's demand for light water reactors in return for dismantling its nuclear facilities could be a "significant opening" to resolving Pyongyang's nuclear issues, declassified documents showed Friday.

The 30-year-old diplomatic dossiers, released by the South Korean government, show a glimpse behind the whirlwind diplomacy in 1993, also known as the "first North Korean nuclear crisis" that began when the North declared that it would withdraw from the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT), an international treaty on preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.

In March 12, the North said it would drop out of the treaty, citing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) pressuring for a special inspection of its nuclear facilities and the Team Spirit joint military drills between the South and the U.S.

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