US Allows North Korea-Ethiopia Arms Trade

The New York Times report North Koreans Arm Ethiopians as U.S. Assents.

"Three months after the United States successfully pressed the United Nations to impose strict sanctions on North Korea because of the country’s nuclear test, Bush administration officials allowed Ethiopia to complete a secret [conventional] arms purchase from the North [Korea], in what appears to be a violation of the restrictions, according to senior American officials."

"The United States allowed the arms delivery to go through in January in part because Ethiopia was in the midst of a military offensive against Islamic militias inside Somalia, a campaign that aided the American policy of combating religious extremists in the Horn of Africa."

And the Bush administration is complaining that Pelosi's visit is sending mixed messges. Which would you rather have with "the evil doers", conversation or arms purchases?