Are we really supposed to believe that the North Korean missile program began after Bush’s election?

Is there anyone so dense as to not recognize that the North Koreans were working on their nuclear weapons program during the entire eight years Clinton was President – a time when the Clinton administration, encouraged by former President Jimmy Carter, was paying the North Koreans billions not to develop nukes, and the North Koreans were cheating under his nose and the noses of the intelligence community?