Hope Reneged

Chron.com Feb. 22
ROME North Korea will formally ask the U.N. World Food Program for aid for children and pregnant women, several months after the communist nation demanded a halt to emergency food help. It's fortunate North Korea was able to eat for 5 months, at least. It IS an improvement on the usual 0 months...

Last year, North Korea demanded that international aid groups stop sending emergency humanitarian assistance such as food by the end of 2005
Sunday September 18, 2005 if I do recall...

North Korea asked that the emergency aid be converted to long-term development assistance. Wow. That quite a(nother) broken promise.

The U.N will accept the request. It's much easier to simply inject more anaesthetic, than it is to operate...

UPDATE: Of course, the Knight's Right...