I don't understand why we just can't stop any and all sort of aid to the hostiles of this country. The world would be a much better place. We could maybe even slow down the national debt clock.
Everyone in power in "the intelligence community" has been assessing for years that the Kim dynasty (now Kim Chong Il) are psychopathic enough to launch a war if the North Korean army starts to starve and threatens to turn on the regime.
So we feed the N Korean Army and thus we keep Kim in power so he won't turn into Doctor Demento. Now, Doctor Demento with nukes.
Of course, Madeleine Albright et al went way beyond this by treating this guy as a sane human being with some issues, who just needed to be wooed by the SuperPowers as if he was some kind of "equal". That's why the uber libs who see no evil they can't make a deal with, are still calling for "direct talks"
Too many talking heads seem to think they could solve this problem if only the Bush team took their advice.
Ha.