1NC Round 2 UTD vs Kansas HM
State department is pushing for food aid now but it’s not guaranteed
Reuters 12-21 (“US signals N.Korea, keeping dialogue open after Kim death”, http://tribune.com.pk/story/309774/us-signals-n-korea-keeping-dialogue-open-after-kim-death/)
US officials said that with North Korea in mourning...described the talks as inconclusive.
State department resources are zero-sum. Spending capital on assistance trades off especially because their explicitly requires more funding from the State Department
Kelemen 8-21-2011, NPR, she has been traveling with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from Asia to the Middle East and Europe, tracking the Obama administration's broad foreign policy agenda, Hillary Clinton: U.S. Diplomacy Is Stretched Thin, http://www.npr.org/people/2100727/michele-kelemenhttp://www.npr.org/2011/08/16/139678323/hillary-clinton-u-s-diplomacy-is-stretched-thin
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the bruising budget battles ...where we intervene and what we do."
Rapid negotiations are key to resolve North Korean food aid – millions will starve this year without them
The Guardian December 21 (Tania Branigan, 2011, “North Koreans will ‘die from malnutrition within months”, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/21/north-korea-malnutrition-food-aid?intcmp=239)
Humanitarian groups fear that the death ...hair was greying and her upper arm circumference was just 10cm.
1NC Round 4 UTD vs Wichita State DS
Food Aid negotiations with North Korea are succeeding now and solve disarmament negotiations
AP December 18 (Time, “U.S. Aid a Step Toward Korea Nuke Talks” JEAN H. LEE, http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2102759,00.html#ixzz1hRPjtaLn
The United States is poised to announce ...is better characterized as "nutritional assistance."
Clinton’s diplomatic capital is zero-sum. Spending capital on assistance trades off
Kelemen 8-21-2011, NPR, she has been traveling with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from Asia to the Middle East and Europe, tracking the Obama administration's broad foreign policy agenda, Hillary Clinton: U.S. Diplomacy Is Stretched Thin, http://www.npr.org/people/2100727/michele-kelemenhttp://www.npr.org/2011/08/16/139678323/hillary-clinton-u-s-diplomacy-is-stretched-thin
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the ...where we intervene and what we do."
The military portion of the plan would necessitate lots of resources from the State department
The Quadrennial Defense Review ‘10 (QDR Report prepared for Congress, February 1, 2010)
As part of the U.S. government's integrated civilian-military ...activities to achieve sophisticated information objectives.
Food aid negotiations now are key to prevent loose nukes that cause nuclear terror
Gallucci 12-22, president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the chief negotiator with North Korea during the administration of President Bill Clinton (Robert. December 21, “What to Do, and Not Do, About North Korea”, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/22/opinion/north-korea-isnt-a-crisis-yet.html)
What does make sense is to continue to deplore ...North Korea never attempts such transfers again.
Retaliation causes nuclear war
Rhodes 10 – Affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, Former visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT, and author of “The Making of the Atomic Bomb” which won the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award, Richard, The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons, p. 289
Equally unsettling was my encounter with Ted Taylor,...building a homemade nuclear weapon is chilling.