I wondered about the wisdom of proceding with a new food-and-aid package for North Korea, since the Hermit Kingdom had kept up its bellicose rhetoric even after Kim Jong-un assumed power in December. Now the State Department has big-time egg on its face. NK is going to launch a rocket with a satellite on it - a clear violation of its agreements with us and pretty much everybody else in the world.
But that's Foggy Bottom for you. It's the same kind of swift move as resuming normal levels of military aid to Egypt after its Parliament issued a resolution basically declaring Israel to be an enemy state.
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