Yet another fuck up

The use of "apostacy" as a foreign power tool has rarely if ever been successful. Look no further than Cuba, still under Castro, forty-six years after taking power, and fourteen years after the collapse of his benefactor.

But it worked so well there, that the Bush Administration thought the way to handle North Korea would be exactly the same. While Bush was warned that taking this much time to set up a complicated system of regional talks would cause additional risk, via additional time, for North Korea to develop weapons systems.

And now, for the first time, the North Koreans claim that they have just such weapons.
If true, and certainly North Korea in addition to repression and isolation has no small history of grandstanding, we can chalk up substantial responsibility for this development on Bush's inability to interact with a situation with creativity and dispatch.