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Governments composed of humans are not natural disasters. This is why the US sends representatives from the State Department to negotiate his release and not t

• Grishnakh 11y ago
  >Governments composed of humans are not natural disasters. The North Korean government is pretty close. The people in it are borderline insane, so you can't deal with them like you would deal with rational human beings.
  • ionised 11y ago
    I don't think they are insane, just incredibly self-serving to the point where they would leave the rest of the country in abject poverty in order to maintain their stranglehold on the country's leadership and the power, wealth and influence that comes with it. What happens if Kim abdicated and NK became a true democratic state? He and the rest of the leadership would be hunted down for war crimes and crimes against humanity. It's a dynasty protecting itself at the expense of everyone else.
    • Grishnakh 11y ago
      If they really wanted to do that, it wouldn't be very hard; they'd just do something like what the UK did: set themselves up as permanent monarchs (of a sort) and then set up a parliament and gradually shift power to it while keeping the Kim dynasty as head-of-state. Make sure to write the laws so they can't be applied retroactively, eventually make the Kims figureheads who just sign the laws and act as a possible last-resort in case the parliament goes out of control or does something they really don't like, but otherwise stay out of governing. No, I think the dynasty stays in power because they actually want to be in power.
• knorker 11y ago
  They're not. But you need to accept the reality of the real world.