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Aiding DPRK would be a dangerous move. Either their populace starves or their weapons program loses money. If the population starves, there's a huge higher chan
by Fej 10y ago
Aiding DPRK would be a dangerous move. Either their populace starves or their weapons program loses money. If the population starves, there's a huge higher chance of revolution. As terrible as it is, it's a win-win for the international community, and even North Korea as well, in the long term.
- omginternets 10y agoI dunno. I see your point and if it were nearly any other nation, I'd even agree, but there's something special about the DPRK. I frankly don't see them ever revolting. It's perhaps the only country that's so successfully isolated it's population and -- as much as I dislike the term -- brainwashed them. I'm beginning to think they'd sooner starve than revolt. After all, they've already been through this so many times...
- reitoei 10y agoThis is a country that operates death camps for minor crime. The chances of a revolution led by the civilian populace is nil thanks to decades of fear and brainwashing. It needs to have the support of the military.
- smacktoward 10y ago> If the population starves, there's a huge higher chance of revolution What makes you think so? They already went through one horrible famine (the "Arduous March", back in the '90s, which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine) without support for the regime shaking. The absolutely stunning amount of indoctrination and thought control the government has put its people through has made North Korea a place where the normal political laws of nature do not apply. Light bends by itself, water flows uphill. It's a deeply weird place, which makes predicting how its people will react to events very difficult.