but we got intelligence that they were pursuing uranium enrichment capacity and launched missiles. so this deal was violated by the north koreans. president bush labeled north korea as that axis of evil. how did he treat the north koreans during his administration? reporter: after the agreed framework failed, we launched into several rounds of negotiations with the so-called six parties. the united states, china, north and south korea, russia and japan. and there was some highs and lows throughout this period. we had some breakthroughing. break thrust. in 2005, the north koreans agreed to rejoin the nonproliferation treaty. we talked about some concessions, food aid, and president bush removed north korea from the satate sponsor o terrorism act.