The "deal" with North Korea

We heard yesterday that the USA has made a deal with North Korea. America is sending an enormous amount of food aid (like a quarter of a million tons of food) in exchange for the promise from the NK's to stop nuclear testing, to cease tests on long range missiles and to allow inspectors back in to see their nuclear programs. There are some other details, but the key point is that the NK's are not promising to give up their nuclear weapons. That's right, we are giving the NK's the food they need to keep their regime in power and they are promising to stop things that do not matter anyway.

North Korea is estimated to have at least ten nuclear weapons, and there may well be more. Further, North Korea is closely allied with Iran which is also working on long range delivery systems for the nukes. Indeed, the intelligence agencies believe that NK scientists are assisting the mullahs in their quest for ICBMs. Does it really matter to the NK's that they are no longer testing missiles in Korea if they can still test them in Iran? I doubt it. Do the NK's really want to keep test firing nukes or are they satisfied to just keep the ones they already have? Indeed, will there be any way to see if the NK's actually stop assembling new nukes? Of course not.

Ronald Reagan used to refer to an old Russian proverb every time there was some arms control agreement with the old Soviet Union. The proverb was "Trust, but verify!" Here, the Obamacrats have rewritten that proverb to "Trust those who cannot be trusted, and verify in ways that do not mean anything!"

We need an explanation as to why it makes sense to prop up the Kim regime in North Korea in exchange for a few meaningless promises. We know from the past that the NK's cannot be trusted. After all, Bill Clinton made an agreement with the NK's under which they gave up their nuclear weapons programs only for us to find out many years later that those programs continued in secret and until completion. Wouldn't it be better for all if the Kim regime crumbled and there was reunification of Korea? Shouldn't that be the goal here?

There may be some underlying logic to what is being done here, but I do not see it. Maybe Hillary can tell us. Someone should!