North Korea deal dead?

China Matters has the skinny on a possible unraveling of the N. Korea agreement. The Treasury Department has evidently scuttled the deal to lift sanctions on the Macao bank that NK uses, the supposition is that the neo-cons have struck back once again.

NK is still mum about it, but China has expressed their displeasure.

I'm curious to know if this would even cross onto Feckless Leader's radar screen. Christopher Hill must be displeased, and I would think he would complain to Condi, but can she put it in the plain and simple terms that FL could understand? Can anyone?

From the outside it appears that such decisions are not made by FL, the realists and the neo-cons run a continual game of gotcha behind the scenes that must make interpreting US policy a difficult matter for friend and foe alike. Despite reports that the realists have the upper hand, the surge and now this episode cast doubt on that.