The Imperative of Food Aid

That didn't last very long, did it? A week is about as long as those thinking heads can contain a concept that includes surrendering their nuclear arsenal to the trash heap, leaving the world one more lunatic nation short of the potential of atomic annihilation. A week of tentative anticipation on the part of the international community, surely by now accustomed to the short attention span of North Korea's succession of inspirational leaders.

South Korea apparently had its "Koran-burning" moment when a few of their soldiers wrote naughty and most certainly forbidden thoughts about their sister country's leaders. An obviously outrageous prank not to be countenanced by the mortally affronted North Korea. An assault on their tender sensibilities so horrendous that South Korea must pay for it to assuage the feelings of North Korea.

A North Korean flag flutters in the propaganda village of Gijungdong as seen from South Korea's Taesungdong freedom village during a graduation ceremony for Taesungdong Elementary School in Paju on February 16, 2012. (Jung Yeon Je/AFP/Getty Images)

For no one tampers with the delicate feelings of Kim Jong Un, and no one is entitled to make light of the Kim dynasty. Therefore a "sacred war" against South Korea is entirely justified. And to that purpose, and in approval of their Dear Leader, 150,000 famine-struck citizens of North Korea gathered among the military personnel to cheer on the revenge.

"The venue is filled with crowds in the spirit of annihilating enemies to wipe out the traitor [South Korean Prime Minister] Lee and military warmaniacs", warned North Korea's Korean Central News Agency. The world cannot, after all, have warmaniacs running around on the loose. North Korea is kindly offering to extinguish them.

A statement released on KCNA for the Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army warned: "Strongest Warning Served to Those Who Hurt Dignity of Supreme Leadership".

"The Lee Myung Bak group committed a thrice-cursed high treason without hesitation. The units of the puppet army openly slandered and defamed the dignity of the supreme leadership. The Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army ... solemnly declares once again that it will indiscriminately stage its own-style sacred war to wipe out the group of traitors. The war drills now underway by the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors and the U.S. imperialists have touched off towering grudge of the army and people of the DPRK".

That indiscriminate towering grudge moves the chess pieces back to where they were previously on the board. As though anyone of sound mind receiving the pledge from North Korea that it would abandon its nuclear ambitions could have taken it seriously. Even for food aid for its starving millions. People are expendible by their very nature; they excel in reproducing themselves.

It is far more difficult to successfully urge atoms to conduct themselves in the manner in which they may aid in creating respect and fear of the commanding Dear Leader within the unworthy and cringing international community. Power uber alles.