Do you believe it? Can you demand more intrusive inspection? N. Korea has thousands of underground facilities. Many are not known to outsiders. Who knows what they stored in those bunkers and caves. There are extensive underground facilities in Jagang, Yanggang, N. and S. Hamkyong Province. All military related, munition production, missile production, underground military base, and nuclear facilities.
Can America pinpoint which nuke facilities are where and what nuclear material(warhead, component) are located where? Can U.S. demand the inspection of all suspected sites?
Is U.S. so sure that N. Korea would not resort to extreme form of hide-and-seek or shell game? If so, it is utterly naive.
If U.S. knows N. Korea is up to no good and demand more transparency, what would U.S. do if N. Korea would threaten to pull the plug out of inspection? Can U.S. call the bluff? Or does it cave and stop short of real inspection?
What U.S. is doing in E. Asia is rather simple. It cannot economically pressure S. Korea and China to rein in N. Korea because it will ruin god-d*mn inflated financial portfolio in U.S.. however small willingness Bush has to get tough on these appeasing players, I suspect it was all but wiped out by multinationals and financial institutions, scared of financial shock it will generate.
U.S. lives on precariously maintained financial bubble which is really sensitive to any non-trivial international conflict. Many get their fill from bubble-generated income, extremely risk-averse, due to precarious nature of financial market. This also creates dangerous complacency to play down brewing national security crisis. The extent some Americans go to justify this completely failed policy is beyond me.