So, you remember how the Clinton administration had this agreement with North Korea where North Korea stopped its plutonium production except the whole time they were secretly working on a uranium enrichment program which is why when Bush came in they ditched the agreement so now North Korea actually has nuclear weapons and six years later the good news is that we might finally have an agreement that's almost exactly the same as the Clinton agreement except with the, y'know, North Korean nuclear weapons?
Well, it turns out maybe they weren't enriching uranium after all...and Bush's people weren't so sure at the time.
Oops.
Over to Josh Marshall:
It's a screw-up that staggers the mind. And you don't even need to know this new information to know that. Even if the claims were and are true, it was always clear that the uranium program was far less advanced than the plutonium one, which would be ready to produce weapons soon after it was reopened. Now we learn the whole thing may have been a phantom. Like I said, it staggers the mind how badly this was bungled. In this decade there's been no stronger force for nuclear weapons proliferation than the dynamic duo of Dick Cheney and George W. Bush.Yup. Sounds about right. (And he doesn't even use any dirty words.)
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