A shift towards N. Korea

So, after all this, the Bush administration is hoping the North Koreans will accept the Clinton deal?

(Hadley) declined to confirm three steps that American and Asian officials said were now being debated: an immediate shutdown of North Korea’s 5 megawatt reactor, whose spent fuel can be turned into weapons; closing of the reprocessing facility that manufactures plutonium fuel; and immediate inspections led by the International Atomic Energy Commission. The agency’s inspectors were thrown out of the country in early 2003.