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Why can't we treat this like a hostage situation? Tell NK we will provide X amount of aid if they will release Y number of citizens of their choosing. That way
by cprayingmantis 10y ago
Why can't we treat this like a hostage situation? Tell NK we will provide X amount of aid if they will release Y number of citizens of their choosing. That way we lighten suffering on the country as a whole but also end suffering for some of its citizens.
- John23832 10y agoThen you get into a game of escalation where you pay more and more for fewer and fewer people. That's not good either.
- cprayingmantis 10y agoYeah that would probably happen, I was just trying to throw out new solutions that didn't end with millions dying.
- Raphmedia 10y agoAnd put them where? Europe too?
- YesAllRefugees 10y agoEspecially Europe.
- tsomctl 10y agoAnd where do they go? One of the reasons why China supports North Korea is because they don't want a bunch of refugees coming in.
- cprayingmantis 10y agoThat's the beauty of tying it to aid. You'll have a slow trickle instead of a huge flood. I'm sure the nations that are involved would figure something out on accepting 5k refugees at a time.
- foota 10y agoRight, just like how accepting the world has been of Syrian refugees?
- hx87 10y agoI'm pretty sure if there was a South Syria, whose population considers themselves to be Syrians and Syrians to be exceptional in the world, with a stable government, a thriving economy, and a security guarantee from the US, they'd have zero problems taking 5K Syrian refugees.
- umanwizard 10y agoSouth Korea.
- fuzzythinker 10y agoBecause that will encourage them to capture more?
- placeybordeaux 10y agoBecause the NK government is literally unreasonable. This isn't a case of the NK government coming to the table to talk, this is a case of other nations not wanting to see citizens suffer.
- btilly 10y agoI love this idea. "Yes, you get help. But you have to give up this big a chunk of land to South Korea, with at least X people on it." We then get to move the DMZ a bit. (South Korea may want help assimilating these people.)
- harshreality 10y agoI don't think that's possible. Land mines.
- cprayingmantis 10y agoI was thinking more along the lines of just people. That way they still feel like they're winning the war (Since we're just under a cease-fire). The first 5k would probably be criminals, disabled people, and general undesirables... people that have it the worst under the current leadership. The next 5k would be a little better off, and so on and so forth. I doubt it would work but it's worth a shot.