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RE: North Korea - big scale bully
True - but North Korea generally refuses the aid as it would make them look "weak" to their own people. Most of the material they do take is "spun" to look like an offering from the West ... akin to us buying them off so as not to be destroyed ourselves. North Korea's regime has a control over the beliefs of their people that is so beyond what could be considered possible that most people don't believe it until they can witness or see it for themselves.
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North Korea - big scale bully
This, and the many other cases like it are sad. If there were a neighborhood bully keeping a community trapped to the point that they couldn't work, couldn't leave the area, couldn't earn enough to feed themselves, we'd never stand for it. The police would be called in, and that would be the end of it. Yet, when we encounter this same type of behavior on the scale of a country, it's considered improper to correct the situation. The UN and the rest of the world can condemn the situation, wring their hands, perhaps even ship in some food, but any thought of sending in the police -- NATO, some other military power, or helping the South clean up the situation -- is quickly and universally condemned.
The people suffering, be they in North Korea, Zimbabwe, Uguanda, the Sudan, or elsewhere be damned: it's a question of national sovereignty, regardless of how poorly the sovereign is behaving. It's difficult for me to square this abstract principal with the very real suffering that it can bring about.
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