IMHO, there is a carrot and stick game going on with North Korea. As I have shown, the stick is remaining in place, however, our side is doing a good (for once) job manipulating the media to dangle carrots in front of NK. This may especially work if our intelligence states there are party members in NK who are disaffected with Kim and may see with this a clear distinction in actions and results. This may also help keep China putting pressure on NK if they think we are taking steps. I think this ‘game’ is far more complex than just a checkers match, we are playing hard ball chess with them.
Well I sincerely hope you’re right. But I can only imagine how the inmates of Kim Jong Il’s concentration camps are reacting to the ‘glorious news’ that the U.S. has capitulated to the Great Leader, thousands of tons of wheat and other aid is being ‘paid’ to North Korea (they’ll spin it that way) and that the ‘beatings will continue until morale improves’.