At a private luncheon in April 1994, North Korean founding leader Kim Il Sung told a gathering of diplomats and journalists that his country would “never have nuclear weapons.”

North Korea, he said had “neither the need to make nuclear weapons nor the will and ability to do so.”

The event had been set up by the Washington, D.C.-based Summit Council for World Peace, an association created by Rev. Moon Sun-myung of the Unification Church. Members included former heads of state, diplomats and experts working on global peace initiatives.

Kim Il Sung claimed at the luncheon that North Korea’s nuclear