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North Korea Sixth Nuclear Test Why in news? The North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear test recently. What is the history of Nuclear crises in Korea? The current one is the third nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula. First Crisis -  Post-Cold War, U.S. and USSR withdrew naval and tactical nuclear weapons globally, including the ones in Korea. But the U.S-South Korea military exercises were restarted. Subsequently in 1993 with North Korea threatening to withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The crisis was averted by direct talks with the U.S. leading to an Agreed Framework in 1994. Under which North Korea suspended its decision to withdraw from the NPT, agreed to freeze its nuclear activities. The Clinton administration pledged to provide nuclear power reactors also provided more than $800 million of food aid. Second Crisis -  The Bush administration in 2002 declared North Korea part of the ‘axis of evil’  & annulled the 1994 Framework. North Korea