This is pascal's mugging. Democracy itself might fail! You're just inflating the stakes of your hypothetical bad outcome until it can overwhelm any positive ups

This is pascal's mugging. Democracy itself might fail! You're just inflating the stakes of your hypothetical bad outcome until it can overwhelm any positive upside. Not to mention, democracy is under just as much or more threat from "banal" fake news created by citizens. People gonna people. They don't need the DPRK lying to them to fool themselves.