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> North Korea could simply abandon their nuclear weapons program, stop antagonising their neighbours and then the sanctions would be lifted. Stop resisting and
by pastacacioepepe 3y ago
> North Korea could simply abandon their nuclear weapons program, stop antagonising their neighbours and then the sanctions would be lifted.
Stop resisting and I'll stop choking you.
- threeseed 3y agoMore like stop trying to attack your neighbours and I'll stop choking you. And nobody in this world including the US wants North Korea to continue to be a relic from the 1970s. Prosperity lifts us all.
- pastacacioepepe 3y agoThen lift the sanctions. How are sanctions going to protect anyone from nuclear attacks anyway, if NK already has an arsenal?
- VWWHFSfQ 3y agoFlood them with Yankee dollars. Fidel Castro would have been ousted immediately. Kim Jong Il would have been murdered.
- mrguyorama 3y agoNorth Korea actually already makes millions (at least) of passable US currency. North Korea isn't impoverished because of lack of resources, but rather because the Kim regime would rather spend those resources on themselves.
- metadat 3y agoThey did it for a 3 year period from 2002-2005. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea%E2%80%93United_States_relations#:~:text=In%20September%202005%2C%20the%20US,produce%20such%20high%2Dquality%20notes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea%E2%80%93United_S....
- zdragnar 3y agoYes, that is how subduing a belligerent person works.
- pastacacioepepe 3y agoA person that wouldn't be belligerent in the first place if you didn't make it so?
- asdff 3y agoKim Jong Un isn't belligerent. The north koreans have a different playbook for foreign policy than you might be used to but its a playbook nonetheless. For their people the program is akin to something like the Apollo program in terms of national pride. Its also a dead man's switch effectively. The ruling family obviously wants to maintain their life of idyllic luxury and nuclear weapons and belligerent public addresses are a good way to make people second guess just steamrolling you over. In effect they are just playing a hand thats already dealt to continue their positioning.
- goatlover 3y agoOr you know they could become democratic and embrace market reforms so their people don't suffer so much oppression and poverty, but then the ruling class would have to give up its power. Then they could unite with SK. Nobody in the West is team rolling a democratic country.
- asdff 3y agoThat would require losing the reigns of power. Plus who is to say if the populace doesn't turn on them and make a Mussolini out of him?