[baxtr]

What about its people?

[cogman10]

Yes. Dictatorships suck, but what sucks more is a civil war powered by foreign governments doing a proxy war.

Syria is the prime example of this. A major reason for the civilian slaughter was foreign intervention trying regime change.

[JumpCrisscross]

> Dictatorships suck, but what sucks more is a civil war powered by foreign governments doing a proxy war

It's a macabre study. But one could honestly argue that several countries in the latter category's populations are better off than North Korea's.

[baxtr]

> Dictatorships suck, but what sucks more is a civil war powered by foreign governments doing a proxy war.

Are you sure about this part?

[AbstractH24]

The leadership in North Korea’s clearly doesn’t prioritize them.

[Matl]

The fact that NK possess nuclear weapons strongly discourages external players from attacking it. It does not in any way change the tools NK has at its disposal domestically.

If you're trying to say that had NK not had nukes we would bomb it for 'humanitarian purposes' or 'on behalf of its people' then I have a couple of bridges for sale.

[lyu07282]

> If you're trying to say that had NK not had nukes we would bomb it for 'humanitarian purposes' or 'on behalf of its people' then I have a couple of bridges for sale.

You think the US would just leave them alone as a communist, sovereign country without nukes, bordering china???