Conservative scholar and former CIA officer Bruce Klingner says President Trump’s proposal for denuclearization with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday is weaker than the terms offered by former President Bill Clinton during his administration. 

“This is very disappointing. Each of the four main points was in previous documents with NK, some in a stronger, more encompassing way. The denuke bullet is weaker than the Six Party Talks language. And no mention of CVID, verification, human rights,” Klingner, who is now a Northeast Asia senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation said in a tweet. 

This is very disappointing. Each of the four main points was in previous documents with NK, some in a stronger, more encompassing way. The denuke bullet is weaker than the Six Party Talks language. And no mention of CVID, verification, human rights.

— Bruce Klingner (@BruceKlingner) June 12, 2018

After their historic summit, Trump and Kim signed a joint statement making a broad commitment for the U.S. to provide North Korea with “security guarantees” in return for denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

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Clinton struck a deal with North Korea in 1994, known as the Agreed Framework, which was aimed at freezing Pyongyang’s nuclear power plant and replacing it with plants with safeguards against nuclear weapons work. 

The agreement broke down during the George W. Bush administration in 2003. 

Klingner’s Twitter profile says he spent 20 years at the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency.