This rapprochement began in 2003 when Libya agreed to pay restitution to the families of 270 people who died aboard Pan Am Flight 103, which Libyan agents were responsible for bombing. Even more dramatically, Libya agreed that year to end its nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction programs and allow America and Britain to verify this. It was this in particular that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice cited as "an important model" for how Iran and North Korea could improve their relations with the United States.