A new article in the journal Foreign Affairs has accused the Bush administration of manipulating intelligence on North Korea’s nuclear program in a similar fashion to its use of weapons of mass destruction to justify the war on Iraq. The author, Selig Harrison, writes “Relying on sketchy data, the Bush administration presented a worst-case scenario as an incontrovertible truth and distorted its intelligence on North Korea, seriously exaggerating the danger that Pyongyang is secretly making uranium-based nuclear weapons.” Harrison chairs the Task Force on Korean Policy, a grouping of former senior US military officials, diplomats and Korean specialists. Agence France Press reports that the Task Force issued a report today calling on the US immediately to back down on its insistence that North Korea come clean on its alleged uranium program.