In particular, during his stint at the NSC, Jack Pritchard adamantly opposed President Bush's fully justified hard line vis a vis the world's last Stalinist regime and repeatedly sought to scupper it by urging negotiations on Pyongyang's terms.
He argued more money needed to be spent now in order for the garden to pay its way in the future and said the quality of the garden justified "drawing a line under the present situation".
"The evaluation concluded that any undergrounding of the main 400kV line cannot be justified on the grounds of cost, technical difficulties and very limited environmental benefits, " its report said.