The National Security Agency took credit in 2003 for uncovering North Korea’s violation of the 1994 Agreed Framework nuclear deal negotiated by the Clinton administration.
A classified internal NSA newsletter, SID Today, states that the agency’s Signals Intelligence Directorate used electronic espionage to discover that the North Koreans were secretly developing uranium enrichment capabilities.
"The U.S. knew that the North Koreans were developing a uranium-enrichment capability — an effort banned by the treaty," Frances J. Fleisch, deputy production manager for the NSA’s China/Korea product line, wrote in the newsletter’s April 9, 2003, edition. "To the surprise of many, the North Koreans admitted that this was true and declared the Framework to be null and void."
Read the entire article at the Washington Times.