Does President Bush still regard North Korea as part of an “axis of evil”?
MR. HADLEY: Well, one of the things he said in his statement this afternoon is we have a lot of problems with North Korea. We have problems about how they treat their own people. This is a country that is — where the people are in difficult straits. And as you know, we’ve entered into arrangement to provide food assistance, and we think it’s a good thing that North Korea has worked with us so we can provide that assistance. We’ve been very concerned about human rights in North Korea, the lack of freedoms by the people in North Korea. We’re obviously concerned about their nuclear activities. We’re concerned about their ballistic missile activities. We’re concerned about the threat they potentially pose to their neighbors because of their ballistic missiles and because the large conventional forces they make. So we have a long agenda with North Korea. And as the President made clear today, we are in the process of addressing the nuclear issue, but before we can have the kind of relation
