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Donald Rumsfeld didn't seem to think that this "Agreed Framework" was such a bad deal

Apparently you didn't read the history. The ABB nukes are light water reactors which are considered safer by the U.S. The problem is with NK's old heavy water reactor.

The problem with the Carter/Clinton agreement is that it only postponed the day of reckoning. In essence, the KorComms didn't have to do anything but sit tight for several years and they got two light water reactors. They did not have to shut down their old reactor, but only had to say that they did. Clinton bought them off for $6Bil and solved no U.S. problm but his own.

Pardon me, but your comments sound like hysterical world conspiracy tin-foil comments.

Apparently you didn't read the history. The ABB nukes are light water reactors which are considered safer by the U.S. The problem is with NK's old heavy water reactor. The problem with the Carter/Clinton agreement is that it only postponed the day of reckoning. In essence, the KorComms didn't have to do anything but sit tight for several years and they got two light water reactors. They did not have to shut down their old reactor, but only had to say that they did. Clinton bought them off for $6Bil and solved no U.S. problm but his own.

Actually, the House Republican Policy Caucus quoted expert testimony that said the light water reactors we were supposed to build them would enable the DPRK to build some 60 nukes per year using Plutonium 238 which would have been a pretty sad state of affairs for the US. Fortunately, after some vacillitation, it looks like Bush is not going to let the Japs/ROK build them and that the Russians will likely end up building a new nuclear reactor for the North Koreans instead.