There is an intrinsic urgency (in the Bush administration) because even as we're talking, the (nuclear) program in North Korea is not frozen. Each day that passes brings an added increment of risk and danger.

North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn't producing any more.

[That North Korea must completely, verifiably, and irreversibly dismantle its nuclear program before receiving any benefits. In a July 13 interview with South Korea’s SBS Television, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reiterated these conditions: North Korea, she said, must] make a strategic choice to abandon its nuclear weapons programs and its nuclear programs ... in the context of these [six-party] talks.

The IAEA should be worried, as I am worried about it, because North Korea is now a nuclear power state with a ballistic missile program.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.