[rmmcdaniell]

...Many conservatives in and out of the Bush administration assume that North Korea's population must be seething and that the regime must be on its last legs. Indeed, the Bush administration's policy on North Korea, to the extent that it has one, seems to be to wait for it to collapse.

To the contrary, Bush is proping up the regime.

The United States to give North Korea 50,000 tonnes of food aid

[WOSG]

Wrong. It is not 'propping up a regime' to give food aid to save people from starvation, for the simple reason that regimes this brutal can survive the starvation of their people with impunity. For examples, look to USSR in the 1930s (Ukrainian famine), China in the 1950s, etc.
The one thing we should insist on is that this food aid goes directly to the people, and not end up like Saddam's 'oil-for-palaces' program.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

They don't want food