Commentary Magazine   North Koreans Fool Obama Again  On Feb.
29, the Obama administration agreed to give North Korea 240,000
tons of food aid in return for a return for a North Korean
moratorium on long-range missile tests, nuclear tests, uranium
enrichment and other nuclear activities. Then last week North
Korea announced that it was planning a satellite launch which of
course involves using a long-range rocket in contravention of
the “leap day” deal. This week North Korea says it will welcome
International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors back after a
hiatus of three years, thus seemingly  upholding another aspect
of the deal.  What’s going on? Why is Pyongyang making deals,
then taking actions that immediately repudiate them, while
promising to adhere to other parts of the accord? No one really
knows whether this is sheer duplicity on the part of the North
Korean leadership or a rivalry among different branches of the
government, some of which might want to strike a deal and others
that don’t. Given that N