The New York Times is reporting the Bush administration is considering entering into negotiations with North Korea that would lead to a possible peace treaty. The new stance would go back on President Bush’s refusal to deal with North Korea until it gave up its nuclear program. According to the Times, a classified National Intelligence Estimate concluded North Korea has likely produced the fuel for more than a half-dozen nuclear weapons since the President took office and was continuing to produce roughly a bomb’s worth of new plutonium each year. A senior Asian official told the Times the initiative may be prompted by the Bush administration’s views on Iran. The official said: “There is a sense that they can’t leave Korea out there as a model for what the Iranians hope to become — a nuclear state that can say no to outside pressure.”