0 values convert to null if casting to or inserting to Hive DECIMAL where precision and scale are the same

I am trying to load zero values into Hive Decimal fields into a Hive table where the precision and scale are defined as the same e.g. DECIMAL(1,1) or DECIMAL(3,3) etc...
However every time I run a hive ql insert statement to do this containing zero values or run a LOAD DATA command to load a text file of data containing zero values to these columns / fields, on performing a query on the table, these zero values are displayed and treated as NULL values.
On further investigation, I was able to narrow the problem down to doing simple selects with casts. See example and output from Hive below. So attempting to do a cast for 0 or 0.0 or '.0' to DECIMAL(1,1) NULL is returned instead of 0. This is the same for precisions 1-38 where the scale is also the same
If there is a work around for this then please let me know. Thanks!

hive> select cast('.0' as DECIMAL(1,1)), cast('0.0' as DECIMAL(1,1)), cast('0' as DECIMAL(1,1)), cast(0 as DECIMAL(1,1)), cast(0.0 as DECIMAL(1,1));
Query ID = xxxxxxx_20141024140000_e4dfdcc1-e4ad-4f84-bd48-198e29fd3757
Total jobs = 1
Launching Job 1 out of 1
Number of reduce tasks is set to 0 since there's no reduce operator
Starting Job = job_1413470329106_0052, Tracking URL = http://hdp8:8088/proxy/application_1413470329106_0052/
Kill Command = /usr/lib/hadoop/bin/hadoop job -kill job_1413470329106_0052
Hadoop job information for Stage-1: number of mappers: 1; number of reducers: 0
2014-10-24 14:01:10,256 Stage-1 map = 0%, reduce = 0%
2014-10-24 14:01:27,644 Stage-1 map = 100%, reduce = 0%, Cumulative CPU 6.51 sec
MapReduce Total cumulative CPU time: 6 seconds 510 msec
Ended Job = job_1413470329106_0052
MapReduce Jobs Launched:
Job 0: Map: 1 Cumulative CPU: 6.51 sec HDFS Read: 269 HDFS Write: 15 SUCCESS
Total MapReduce CPU Time Spent: 6 seconds 510 msec
OK
NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL
Time taken: 36.281 seconds, Fetched: 1 row(s)