>> NK can oppress because nobody gives a shit. Am I missing something? Are you judging people morally for not doing the impossible? Or are you just generally

>> NK can oppress because nobody gives a shit. Am I missing something? Are you judging people morally for not doing the impossible? Or are you just generally outraged by dirty realpolitik? I just can't see a third alternative to these non-starters: - China could stop the regime, maybe even without a catastrophe. How would you motivate China to do that, when the West today is as dependent on China as China is on the West? - The military way to help the NK population would be an economic and humanitarian catastrophe, not only in NK. Edit: I could agree with that position on e.g. Zimbabwe, but NK seems carefully designed by the junta to keep them safe by using their own population as hostages (as long as China don't sell them down the river). Edit 2: A third possibility is to offer the junta a better deal than to control the lives of many millions of slaves. But they are obviously happy as it is.