U.S. overplays intelligence on N. Korea nuclear threat

The U.S. backs away from confident statements that North Korea is making progress toward enriching uranium. That assertion by the Bush Administration in 2002 helped to derail negotiations on ending the North's nuclear weapons program.

U.S. officials now says they have only "mid-level confidence" that the program exists.

...the allegation has remained at the core of U.S. policy toward North Korea...

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