In early June, in a hearing with the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, Robert King, Special Envoy on Human Rights to North Korea, outlined a number of conditions on food aid for North Korea.  King explained that food aid sent to North Korea would be sent in small amounts over a long period of time, comprised of ‘less-desirable’ foods and measures would be taken to prevent the military from ‘hogging’ any of the aid.[1]Previous humanitarian relief operations in North Korea have ended with sub-par results, such as the North’s expulsion of aid workers in 2009 which forced relief