"While the [Bush] administration wrangled internally about whether to negotiate seriously with North Korea, Pyongyang was using the time to break out as a nuclear power," she complained. "Indeed, in February the North Koreans declared that they have a 'nuclear weapons arsenal.'"

Hillary suggested that her husband's approach had been much more successful, noting that "North Korea has apparently used the past five years to become a nuclear weapons state" and now has "many times the number of nuclear weapons it did before the Bush administration took office."

Mrs. Clinton recommended that President Bush follow the example set by his predecessor, and pledge to give North Korea a massive aid package.

"Seriousness is demonstrated by spelling out a package to the North Koreans that addresses their fundamental need for economic assistance," she insisted. "There is a precedent for this," Hillary said, claiming President Clinton's aid giveaway under the so-called Agreed Framework "froze the North Korean plutonium-based nuclear program for nine years."

A 1999 congressional analysis found, however, that the North Koreans began breaking their word almost immediately - and by the late 1990s had resumed the production of nuclear weapons.

In 2004, Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright explained that she and her colleagues had been tricked by Kim Jong Il.

"What they were doing, as it turns out, they were cheating," Albright admitted to NBC's "Meet the Press."

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