North Korea said on Friday it will launch a long-range rocket carrying a "working" satellite to mark the centenary of founder Kim Il-sung's birth next month, sparking regional condemnation that it was in breach of a U.N. resolution.
Come on! Get with the program. North Korea has promised to suspend their nuclear programs! What are they going to do with a working missile? Put nutritional supplements that we pledge to send them in exchange for suspending their nuclear programs in the nose cone? If North Korea wants to waste their money on a weapon system with absolutely no military worth to North Korea without a nuclear warhead, who are we to object?
Sometimes the lack of nuance in some people is distressing. Regional condemnation, indeed.
UPDATE: This, at least, is encouraging:
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland says the North Korean launch would violate U.N. resolutions prohibiting the use of ballistic missile technology and counters last month's agreement to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to again inspect North Korean nuclear sites. ...
Nuland says it is a highly provocative move that makes the delivery of 240,000 tons of food aid hard to imagine. While she says the United States does not link humanitarian assistance with political issues, Washington will not deliver food aid to Pyongyang unless it is convinced that food will go to those in need.
Unless our leaders conclude the problem is a lack of imagination on our part.
Don't save the North Korean regime. If we provide any aid, it should only be enough to string them along in the belief that they can con us into a major aid scam while they continue to slide into the abyss.
