Pushed away from the table?

It seems that the US may have had enough of the "unwelcome dinner guest" that is the DPRK.

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200505/kt2005052220031411960.htm
US Denies Halting Food Aid to NK
The United States has denied a report that it has halted food aid to North Korea amid a deepening standoff over the impoverished communist country’s nuclear weapons programs.
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said a Wall Street Journal article claiming Washington had stopped its food donations to the North is incorrect.
``We’ve completed last year’s shipments of 50,000 tons and we’re considering what we might want to do this year,’’ he told reporters at a regular briefing in Washington on Friday.

He also said
``It doesn't have to do with the comings and goings and rise and fall of six-party talks or any other issue like that,’’ he said, referring to the stalled nuclear negotiations with the North.
``We do want to help the people of North Korea and make sure the people who are in need get the food that they need,’’ he said.

Interesting seeing as how there are "talks" on the go right now (ok, maybe not real talks but there are a few meetings between the parties)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8548932

Now I know that the food aid is supposed to help the PEOPLE of North korea. And that, for the most part, the WFP and other respective parties have peoples interests in mind (well, let's hope), but from all the defector testimony I've read over the last few weeks I really doubt ANY is getting to "the people".

The simple truth is that any food sent to the North is first picked over by party officials, then sent to distribution centers where the Army takes its fair share, then divied out to the people. By the time the average person gets his hands on the bag of rice, all he's got left is the bag to eat. Strike that, chances are the DPRK would have changed the bag so no one would know it was aid from outside and not a Juche effort.