Well what is the point? Is your point that no progress in disarming NK is better than what we just got? There is a big point to be made here and that is for the first time, a president has gotten NK to agree to multinational talks and agreed to inspections and even dismantling plans. See Kimmy boy didn’t want to fall into Saddam’s trap. Saddam agreed to multi national talks. When he walked away from them, he wasn’t just walking away from the big bad ole US, he was walking away from a group. Thats why Kimmy refused to do them for the past 6 years. Another reason NK refused them was that they knew a load of back room dealing would go on that they didn’t like. Maybe China agreed to use its considerable weight if the US agreed to look the other way in Tibet maybe. Things like that. This is pretty big. Yeah NK may(probably will) pull some crap but this is way better than unilateral talks and way better than nothing.
That is not the impression widely here in East Asia.
The impression is that Bush and his team got rolled, and was considerably distracted over the last five years with other matters, subsequently the DPRK was able to stall things out during the very ill-advised Six Party Talks charade, in classic DPRK fashion, and to move forward with their nuke and intermediate/long range warhead program, then use the plutonium production and extraction as a bargaining chip (which they did not have to such extent eight years ago), to finally sue for peace and get their fuel, rice, electricity from the West. Bush is leaving office in 15 months, Kim Jong il's regime will still be in place. You tell me who "won"?
The result was a total capitulation of the "correct" initial Bush approach embodied in his "Axis of Evil" speech, which decayed and eroded over time. Sorry, but this is the reality.
Things were clearly done on North Korea under this Administration that NONE of us would have sanctioned were it to occur under a Clinton regime.