A reporter asked the president at the press conference this morning if it is true what the democrats are saying, that it is the fault of the current administration that North Korea has nuclear weapons.

And as the president diplomatically pointed out, it was the previous administration that dropped the ball. 

This is one of those points that liberals will never concede.

After all, it doesn't matter under whose watch the bombs were built, only when they were completed and tested.  .... right??

Whether you blame Clinton, Bush or both for North Korea, it's pretty hard to ignore that the 1994 agreement Clinton signed with North Korea was worthless. Kim Jong-Il had no intention of discontinuing his production of nuclear weapons, but he knew he had the wool pulled over the eyes of the American president and his chief negotiator, Jimmy Carter.

According to a 2003 article written by Ben Johnson at FrontPageMag.com:

"Under the final terms of the Agreed Framework approved in October of 1994, Clinton agreed to provide the "Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea" (DPRK) with two light water nuclear reactors and a massive allotment of oil.  The U.S. agreed to ship 500,000 metric tons of oil annually in response to the North's pretense that the energy-starved backwater had developed the nuclear facility to generate power.  These shipments have cost taxpayers more than $800 million to date - a bargain compared with the $6 billion spent on constructing the nuclear reactors, which now empower North Korea to produce 100 nuclear bombs each year.

In August 1998, North Korea lobbed a Taepo Dong 1 missile over Japan. Four months later, officials refused U.S. inspectors access to a suspected underground nuclear reactor at Kumchang-ni.  President Clinton then sweetened the deal by rewarding Kim Jong Il's half-year-long stall tactics with 1.1 million tons of food worth nearly $200 million. Not surprisingly, American inspectors found no signs of wrongdoing at the long-sanitized facility."

What is this if not appeasement? 

And what does it mean that it failed miserably?

Well, any logical person would look at that and say that appeasing a mad man does not work. However, logic is a rarely-used trait of those on the left - it plays no role in their quest to regain power.

Can anyone honestly blame Kim Jong-Il though? Look at the prizes he has won from blackmailing the United States. Why would he not continue with the same tactic when it worked so swimmingly in the past?

As hard as the left is trying to re-write history when it comes to its hero, Billy Boy, it won't work.  Especially in the case of North Korea, there is too much evidence of his neglect for history to be kind to him.