Eating Problem

Earlier this month, the Washington Post published an interesting article on North Korea's chronic food problem.

Under the leadership of Kim Jong Il, the country cannot feed its people. Perennially dependent on food aid, North Korea has become a truculent ward of the wealthy countries it threatens. It is the world's first nuclear-armed, missile-wielding beggar -- a particularly intricate challenge for the Obama administration as it begins to formulate a foreign policy.

Yet a couple of weeks after this article appeared, North Korea refused food aid from the US.