Bush Blinks on North Korea, Thank God

While the details are still sketchy, the reports I've seen have North Korea getting everything it wanted:

- A nonaggression pact and diplomatic ties
- A civilian nuclear program
- Heating oil & humanitarian food aid

Isn't this what the righties have been complaining of as appeasement? How is this any different than what we had under the Agreed Framework?

And since we are just getting back to where we started, why did we give North Korea three years without international inspectors to better their knowledge of nuclear weaponry?

Don't get me wrong. I'm very happy to get back to where we were under Clinton. At the time it was, and even now it is, the best of a number of imperfect positions re North Korea.