They began building weapons after receiving years of support from Clinton, manifested in the Agreed Framework deal. This culminated in the acquisition of necessary tools to create nuclear capabilities. The objective of the agreement was the freezing and replacement of North Korea's indigenous nuclear power plant program with more nuclear proliferation resistant light water reactor power plants, and the step-by-step normalization of relations between the U.S. and the North Korea.

They only reached levels of moderate success during the Bush administration after 7 years of research.

But nice try.