The North Korean saga has shown how the US State Dept. says one thing and thinks along the lines of another.
Iraq: No nuclear weapons program, non-proliferator, weak army, crumbling economy, sanctioned for years.
North Korea: Detonated an atomic bomb, proliferated weapons/technology, declared any sanctions to be "an act of war", even flew missles over Japanese islands.
Guess who got paid, foreign aid/investment pouring in, off the "Axis of Evil" and even got the security guarantees that made them pursue nukes in the first place.
