I don't know if anyone is still watching this, but: It's kind of hard to hide that there's also bombs being dropped, so it doesn't seem like claiming it's trib

I don't know if anyone is still watching this, but: It's kind of hard to hide that there's also bombs being dropped, so it doesn't seem like claiming it's tribute would be effective. Claiming that it's poisoned might be viable -- but with enough starving people, someone is going to try it, and some number are going to decide (when it doesn't kill that person, because it isn't poison) that a slow poison is better than fast starvation. It just seems that NK (and a number of other places) keep large segments of the population in near starvation and/or slavery, and suddenly throwing surplus food across the whole country does a lot to disrupt the economics of that. How many people are putting up with NK bullshit because it's the only way to survive? I'm not saying "rice not bombs", I'm saying "25% less bombs, 100% more rice" is probably an effective trade-off in warfare, even in wealthy areas, because many citizens aren't prepared for serious, sustained armed conflicts and you save yourself a lot of trouble if the populace doesn't hate you for generations when the bombing stops.