was telling us that north korea probably already had plutonium-based nuclear material and the answer pwasminimum and a real mess. no one wanted to do korea and, of course, the footnote was, always, korea doesn't have any oil. >> the public case is about weapons. 9/11 changed everything. the threat of weapons of mass destruction now drives american policy. but policy toward the nation posing the most clear and present danger on wmd, north korea, doesn't change dramatically. instead, inside the administration, it is the existing pre-9/1 1 planning about iraq and iraq's oil that goes operational. it's one month after 9/11. the state department forms something called the future of iraq project, a comprehensive plan about what a new iraqi society will look like after saddam is gone. officials assemble a group including iraqi exiles to plan for everything from health, to education, to oil and energy. leading the oil team is a highly regarded former cia energy analyst named robert eeple. >> going to bring together all these senior ex-iraqi oil officials and have them prepare a report on the futu