North Korea vs Iraq

North Korea also recently announced that they have nuclear weapons. They've long been hinting at it but never have they come out and said it.

I'm just curious why the US favours multilateral talks with North Korea when they have WMDs and they went to war in Iraq because they claimed Iraq had WMDs.

Makes my head spin that the Bushies claim the US had no other choice in Iraq.

Maybe the CIA knew Iraq had no WMD (or the means to deliver them) and that the Iraqi army wouldn't be much of a threat. On the other hand, North Korea has nukes and possibly missles with a long enough range to hit the States. Better to fight someone who can't fight back right? Makes sense.

Incidentally, anyone know who won the Iraqi elections? Sistani - who?