Veek, don't agree with much of your lengthy edit. I still support humanitarian aid to North Korea. Any food that gets through is a good thing.
And all that right wing saber rattling about the Iran nuke deal? Trump's Depart of State just certified Iran is in full compliance for the 2nd straight year.
I'm glad you enjoy the edits. I enjoy doing them. They make me fell warm like a pee in the pants on a chilly Autumn afternoon. Thanks for pointing them out.
As for food aid for DPRK, how much of the aid would go to the starving populace versus the party insiders? Mr. Kim does not strike me as being a starving member of the proletariat. In fact I think the greatest threat to his regime may be his cholesterol count unless one of his supporters decides to help him along with some warfarin therapy as was rumored to be the actual demise of Mr. Stalin.
The North Korean government has never accepted the international norms in the provision of aid, impeding normal assessment, monitoring, and evaluation functions of relief organizations. In 1995, when the famine was on the world stage and assistance ramping up, the government cut commercial grain imports – in essence using humanitarian aid as a form of balance of payments support, freeing up resources to finance the importation of advanced military weaponry. North Korean defectors have indicated assumptions that lie behind funding food aid have hindered economic reform in their homeland, not helped it. That said, I suspect the aid flow through the regime of Mr. Kim would exceed that of any administration by the Clinton Global Initiative.
http://en.nknet.org/writings/report...r-survey-international-food-aid-distribution/
As for the world's largest state sponsor of terror, of course they are compliant with the so called "Nuke Deal". There are no meaningful restrictions to violate. They can build and test ballistic missiles and little issues like Iran's possession of excess nuclear-related material, a "formal violation" of the deal, was praised by the Obama administration for "acknowledging" it exceeded that threshold. Gosh, that must deserve another midnight shipment of cash. Besides, many of the Iranian nuclear developments are "self reported" and unlikely to result in violations. One of the side deals with the IAEA relaxed key restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program in a decade, rather than the original 15 years agreed upon, and also gave the country the right to collect its own soil samples, instead of IAEA inspectors, at the Parchin military base. So they get the bomb in 2026, then President Chelsea Clinton can make a new nuke deal right? She can't help but being a better candidate than her mother.
Iran will certainly have the bomb by then and possibly a delivery system to hit the U.S. In order to keep pace, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE will need to acquire nukes as well. A few well placed bucks to Mr. Kim or any number of Pakistanis and voila, they're in the club. What could possibly go wrong?
As an aside, just how dismal must Mrs Clinton have been to lose to the likes of Donald Trump? Oh wait, it was the Russians, the FBI, the deplorable electorate, her staff, Anthony Weiner's laptop, Obama not working hard enough, and so on, and on, and on...