That message, she said, was: "'If I don't have nuclear weapons, I get invaded. And if I do, I don't get invaded' – because we didn't invade the Soviet Union or China."

Albright said White House chief of staff Andrew Card was wrong when he claimed on Sunday that Pyongyang had acquired nuclear weapons during the Clinton administration.

"What we did during our watch was to freeze the nuclear program," she told Alan Colmes. "And I think intelligence un-skewed has shown that it is in the last three years that this nuclear capability of North Korea has emerged."

Last September, however, Albright admitted that North Korea had duped the Clinton administration, and that Kim Jong Il began to acquire nuclear weapons on her watch.

"What they were doing, as it turns out, they were cheating," she told NBC's "Meet the Press."

"The worst part that has happened under the Agreed Framework," Albright explained, was that "there [were] these fuel rods, and the nuclear program was frozen."

But because of North Korea's cheating, she said "those fuel rods have now been reprocessed, as far as we know, and North Korea has a capability, which at one time might have been two potential nuclear weapons, up to six to eight now, we're not really clear."

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