1) 3-6-18 Kim and his predecessors have played this game of freeze and thaw before: Pyongyang dangles the promise of denuclearization, only to renege. North Korea agreed to abandon its nuclear weapons in 2005 during the so-called “six-party talks,” then restarted its program three years later. During the Obama administration, Pyongyang in 2012 agreed to halt nuclear testing. Ten months later, ballistic missile testing resumed, followed by another nuclear test. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-north-korea-nuclear-talks-20180306-story.html
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2) 12-31-17
"This year we should focus on mass producing nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles for operational deployment," Kim said. "These weapons will be used only if our security is threatened.” https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/12/31/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-issues-fiery-statement-on-nuclear-weapons-this-is-reality-not-a-threat/23320710/]
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3) 9-22-17 "Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn't mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before," Trump tweeted https://www.yenisafak.com/en/world/trump-says-north-koreas-kim-will-be-tested-like-never-before-2794157
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4) 9-5-17 Mr Putin said. “They will eat grass but they won't give up (the nuclear) programme if they don't feel safe.”
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5) 9-3-17 North Korea on Sunday claimed to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb designed to be placed on a intercontinental ballistic missile https://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/5-1-magnitude-tremor-recorded-north-korea-could-be-new-n798376
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6) 8-30-17 North Korea state media said the nation "can never stop bolstering up the nuclear deterrent”….The U.S. has been talking to North Korea, and paying them extortion money, for 25 years. Talking is not the answer!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 30, 2017 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4356494/kim-jong-un-north-korea-nuclear-weapons-latest-warning-us/
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7 7-5-17 Grinning broadly, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delighted in the global furore created by his nation's first launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, vowing Wednesday to never abandon nuclear weapons https://www.deccanchronicle.com/world/europe/050717/will-never-abandon-nukes-keep-sending-gifts-to-us-kim-jong-un.html
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8) 4-28-17 Unfortunately, there is little chance the regime will voluntarily give up its nuclear weapons. Kim Jong Un is very aware of the fates of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who were both toppled after abandoning their nuclear aspirations. He believes a nuclear bomb guarantees the security of his regime. http://time.com/4759066/north-korea-kim-jong-un-donald-trump-nuclear-weapons/
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9 4-13-17 China would be willing to offer the North Korean regime protection if it abandoned its nuclear weapons, a well-known Chinese paper reports. http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/china-offers-defend-kim-jong-un-if-he-gives-his-nuclear-20168
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10) 12-30-16 Thae said: "As long as Kim Jong Un is in power, North Korea will never give up its nuclear weapons, even if it's offered $US1 trillion or $US10 trillion in rewards."
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11) 2-21-10 North Korea vowed Friday not to dismantle its nuclear program -- not even in exchange for economic aid -- as long as the United States continues a "hostile policy.” http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/02/19/north.korea.nuclear/index.html
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12) a few more points in the history—
December 22-24, 2002: North Korea cuts all seals and disrupts IAEA surveillance equipment on its nuclear facilities and materials. An IAEA spokesman says December 26 that North Korea started moving fresh fuel rods into the reactor, suggesting that it might be restarted soon.
December 27, 2002: North Korea orders IAEA inspectors out of the country. They leave on December 31.
December 12, 2002: North Korea sends a letter to the IAEA announcing that it is restarting its one functional reactor and is reopening the other nuclear facilities frozen under the Agreed Framework.
October 16, 2002: The United States announces that North Korea admitted to having a clandestine program to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons after James Kelly, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, confronted representatives from Pyongyang during an October 3-5 visit. Kelly later explained that the North Korean admission came the day after he informed them that the United States was aware of the program. North Korea has denied several times that it admitted to having this program.
March 15, 2001: Pyongyang threatens to “take thousand-fold revenge” on the United States “and its black-hearted intention to torpedo the dialogue between north and south [Korea].” The statement, issued by the Korean Central News Agency, called Washington’s new policies “hostile” and noted that Pyongyang remains “fully prepared for both dialogue and war.”
June 16, 1998: The official Korean Central News Agency reports that Pyongyang will only end its missile technology exports if it is suitably compensated for financial losses.
In 1994, faced with North Korea’s announced intent to withdraw from the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), which requires non-nuclear weapon states to forswear the development and acquisition of nuclear weapons, the United States and North Korea signed the Agreed Framework. Under this agreement, Pyongyang committed to freezing its illicit plutonium weapons program in exchange for aid.
Following the collapse of this agreement in 2002, North Korea claimed that it had withdrawn from the NPT in January 2003 and once again began operating its nuclear facilities.
January 20, 1992: The two Koreas sign the South-North Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Under the declaration, both countries agree not to “test, manufacture, produce, receive, possess, store, deploy or use nuclear weapons” or to “possess nuclear reprocessing and uranium enrichment facilities.” They also agree to mutual inspections for verification.
January 30, 1992: More than six years after signing the NPT, North Korea concludes a comprehensive safeguards agreement with the IAEA.
November 8, 1991: In response to President Bush’s unilateral move, President Roh Tae Woo of South Korea announces the Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, under which South Korea promises not to produce, possess, store, deploy, or use nuclear weapons. In addition, the declaration unilaterally prohibits South Korea from possessing nuclear reprocessing or uranium enrichment facilities. These promises, if enacted, would satisfy all of North Korea’s conditions for allowing IAEA inspections of its nuclear facilities. https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/dprkchron
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