administration s perspective on this is there s never a direct trade. we re never giving them food in order to get a concession on nuclear issues. but both of those things are supposedly on the table at once. make of that what you will. do you have any reason to believe either side of that might still happen with kim jong-il dead? either the nuclear concessions or getting them the food? isn t this a crazy situation? they were going to announce the food deal today. they were working on it for months. u.s. officials, food officials and the nuclear officials, just happened to be in beijing last week at the exact same time even though the obama administration said there s no link. it s just a coincidence. they were about to roll out this huge, ambitious controversial project in the face of a lot of republican opposition, by the way. that s all on hold for the indefinite future. what does this mean? doesn t mean the north koreans are going to starve more, it means they re going to be more