INTERNATIONAL ANALYSIS ALERT: Take 1, North Korea

Here's one connection none of the idiotic PolySci degrees in our major news networks could cobble together:

Everyone knows that Russia smashed Georgia as a result of the South Ossetia squabble.
...The US promptly stood feebly by Georgia's side.
Everyone now knows that North Korea stopped disabling its Cold-War era nuclear reactor at Yongbyon on August 26, 2008 and is now reassembling the noxious hunk of junk.

What I'm seeing nowhere is anyone connecting the dots. See here for a cursory history of North Korea's Great Leader, Kim Il-Sung. He escaped the Japanese occupation to Moscow and learned his core Stalinist principles (which he promptly tossed aside to create a self-deification-plus-hereditary succession). Since his first days in power, he has manipulated relationships with China and Russia (née USSR) to keep himself fed and in power. In a tradition fully embraced by his son, Kim Jong-Il, North Korea can usually feed off one or the other. In boon times, the country can feed off both.

There is absolutely no coincidence in the fact that North Korea started this progression two weeks after the United States' original rebuke and movements against Russia. There is a tit-for-tat in front of our faces here - likely conversations between Pyongyang's Russian liaison, loads of food and who-knows-what-else flying into Pyongyang, and a fart in the US' general direction.

(P.S. The bad guys feel more confident playing their childish games when we don't have the intestinal fortitude to execute the bad guys. Execute Mumia Now.)