North Korea has turned over thousands of pages of documentation for its plutonium-based nuclear program:

North Korea handed over more than 18,000 pages of nuclear weapons documents to a U.S. diplomat visiting Pyongyang on Thursday that will help verify its plutonium holdings, senior U.S. officials said.

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“We will see if these documents will play a role in that process, but again it is going to be a verification process that plays out over a period of time,” [McCormak] said. “Our top three priorities are going to be verification, verification and verification,” he added.

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A sticking point has been Pyongyang’s reluctance to discuss any transfer of nuclear technology to other countries, notably Syria, as well as its suspected pursuit of uranium enrichment.

It’s important to note that documents without physical access to all related facilities does not equal verification; unfettered access is needed.

As the article notes, there are two gaping knowledge gaps; the uranium program and nuclear proliferation to Syria. The U.S. should not accept any declaration that does not thoroughly address those two issues. Luckily for the American people, some in congress are at least raising awareness of the real possibility of the Bush administration doing worse than the Clinton legacy.