THE GROWNUPS IN CHARGE. Hilzoy explains the implications of
today's revelations about the abject fiasco that is Bush's North
Korea policy:  Let's be very clear about what this means. We
used to have a deal, the Agreed Framework, that kept North Korea
from getting plutonium. We supposedly discovered that they were
cheating on that deal by enriching uranium. Personally, I did
not think that was a good reason to scrap the Agreed Framework
-- making a uranium bomb takes a lot longer than making a
plutonium bomb, and I didn't see why the discovery that North
Korea had embarked on a slow, cumbersome process of developing
nuclear weapons, one that wouldn't actually produce any weapons
for years, was a reason to say: well, go ahead and develop
nuclear weapons much more quickly, then!  All this time, though,
I was assuming that the North Koreans actually had a uranium
enrichment program, and that they actually were cheating on the
Agreed Framework. That's what this article calls into question.
Brilliant! In all fair