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If the West really cares that much about South Korean civlians, why doesn't North Korea use their threat to extort stuff from the West? Say things like the fol
by csense 14y ago
If the West really cares that much about South Korean civlians, why doesn't North Korea use their threat to extort stuff from the West? Say things like the following:
"Lift the US embargo or we'll kill 15 million South Korean civilians."
"Give us $10 billion a year or we'll kill 15 million people."
"Give us an aircraft carrier or we'll kill 15 million people."
"Give us some better technology or we'll kill 15 million people."
"Give us 10,000 South Koreans to us as slaves every year or we'll kill 15 million of them."
What's stopping North Korea from making these demands?
- PeterisP 14y agoWell, it has been doing essentially that for decades, and they are getting food and oil 'gifts'. There is a lot of negotiation by South Korea and USA with North Korea all the time about where exactly the line will be drawn, with all kinds of negotiation chips.
- pretoriusB 14y ago>What's stopping North Korea from making these demands? That they are an actual country, and not some comic book villain's brotherhood? I mean, WTF? People in the West really believe those kind of things can be demands or that those kind of BS passes through North Korean people's minds?
- guard-of-terra 14y agoThey don't have N * 15 million people. But they did use the "give us a hundred thousand tons of grain or 100,000 people will starve" tactic pretty effectively thru all the 90-s