This is more of the usual game. The aid to North Korea, whether it is in the form of fuel or in some other form, will be provided by large, privately-owned N.G.O.'s (corporate entities) who will get paid handsomely for it by someone....the US govt, I would assume. They certainly aren't going to give it away for free! ;-) That means the American public will pay for it indirectly through their taxes, and the corporations will cash in...as always. The politicians will have rewarded the big invisible hand that funds them and puts them in Congress or the White House. That's what it's always about, in the final analysis: corporate profit.

If a byproduct, however, is to reduce the threat of war in that region, well, that's considerably better than nothing.