Thank the Three Stooges
Yup, it was Jimmah, Bubba, and Maddie Halfbright that sold us down the Yalu river in 1994. Let's trace this tawdry tale.

First there was Jimmah providing peace in our time in July 1994:

The Korean crisis is over--or so says former President Jimmy Carter, who took the settling of it into his own hands and returned from Pyongyang claiming to have turned away the wrath of North Korean dictator Kim Il-Sung with a kind word. It is not totally impossible that Kim was willing to back away from his program to develop nuclear weapons in exchange for economic aid and other concessions. That, however, would have been contrary to everything we knew about Kim and his flaky regime. More likely, the good-hearted Mr. Carter got snookered, and the United States along with him, while North Korea gained time and cover to finish the job.

Mooncalf Jimmah always gets snookered. It's what he does. It's all he does.

Via Jonah Goldberg - an October 1994 NY Times editorial:

Diplomacy with North Korea has scored a resounding triumph. Monday's draft agreement freezing and then dismantling North Korea's nuclear program should bring to an end two years of international anxiety and put to rest widespread fears that an unpredictable nation might provoke nuclear disaster.

The U.S. negotiator Robert Gallucci and his North Korean interlocutors have drawn up a detailed road map of reciprocal steps that both sides accepted despite deep mutual suspicion. In so doing they have defied impatient hawks and other skeptics who accused the Clinton Administration of gullibility and urged swifter, stronger action. The North has agreed first to freeze its nuclear program in return for U.S. diplomatic recognition and oil from Japan and other countries to meet its energy needs.
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From the start, the hawks' alternative to diplomacy was full of danger. Their solution -- economic sanctions and bombing runs -- might have disarmed North Korea, but only at the risk of war. President Clinton, former President Carter and Mr. Gallucci deserve warm praise for charting a less costly and more successful course.

Then Maddie had a nice yuk with the head wingnut to seal the deal. What a pair!

Now fade to 2002. When President Bush had the audacity to include N. Korea in the Axis of Evil, Halfbright filled her Depends:

On February 1, when interviewed by the American Broadcasting Corporation, Madeleine Albright, former US Secretary of State, described Bush's "Axis of Evil" remark as "a gross mistake". She said that the principle Bush currently uses in handling foreign affairs has caused the international community to think that the United States is doing things "in an utterly disorderly way" and has "lost reason". She said: "putting the three countries together is a gross mistake." She is particularly opposed to listing the DPRK (North Korea) in the so-called Axis of Evil, saying that Bush's way of doing things will possibly cause the United States to lose popular support among the international community. Albright particularly noted that she had contacted and reached agreement with the DPRK. Whereas Bush has "single-handedly destroyed" the initial relationship she had established with Korea during the Clinton age.

Oh and what's their story now that the N. Koreans have revealed that they kept their nuclear weapons program going despite the "deal"? You guessed it - No Sign of N. Korea Nuclear Program Under Clinton:

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton's administration did not see evidence that North Korea was pursuing a uranium enrichment program for nuclear weapons that Pyongyang now admits it is operating, a senior Clinton aide said on Thursday.

Since they couldn't find their collective butt with a catcher's mitt, that's no surprise.

I'm not a big fan of Sen. John McCain, but he called this one (via Rod Dreher):

On October 19, 1994, on the occasion of the Clinton Administration announcing its agreement with North Korea, Sen. John McCain said: "On at least eight previous occasions, North Korea has lied to the Clinton Administration. With this agreement, Administration officials have willingly acquiesced in Pyongyang's almost certain further deception. Yet again, the Administration has mistaken resolving the North Korean nuclear crisis with merely postponing its apogee. ...I suspect that the Administration's willlingness to delay the resolution of this crisis is premised on their presumption that the bankrupt North Korean economy will force the regime's collapse before they violate the agreement. Unfortunately, their economy may be salvaged during the interim period by the hallf a billion tons of oil they will receive annually, the opening of trade relations with the U.S., and greater trade with its Asian neighbors, which the agreement [provides for]. Thus, the Administration has accomplished the remarkable feat of allowing the North Koreans to have their carrot cake and eat it too."

The real question is whether the three stooges are traitors or merely fools.

And Jimmah, shove your Peace Prize where the sun don't shine. If there's room there alongside your head.