......Maybe the US does not like the unfortunate timing...
Perhaps that is the case, but didn’t earlier reports indicate the Thai’s were tipped off by American intelligence?
That would seem to indicate our government left hand is unaware of what the right is doing. Is that possible?
Yes. Very possible. There is probably very little love lost between the career American intelligence community, particularly field people, and Senator Obama and his inept, ill-prepared, amateurish national security team.
Or it may have been a deliberate “set up” to catch the Norkies redhanded doing something bad and embarrass them and/or find out what kind of stuff they are shippping out despite UN sanctions. That is remote, but possible. I would expect that in previous administrations perhaps, but not out of Obama.