I see here hidden false assumption that helping North Korea is making lives of North Koreans less miserable.
The main cause of all problems for North Koreans is this totalitarian regime and those who support it. They suffer from that! Not from your actions. So destabilising the country is attacking the core of their problem and thus helping North Korea people. Supporting the regime is prolonging their sufferings. This regime should fall inevitably and there is no other way to help people of North Korea people so the only question is when and how.
Please! No more of this line of reasoning, it has caused suffering and damage time and time again.
Don't recommend that others endure that which you and your loved ones are not willing to endure. Before claiming a country must be blockaded, starved and bombed into submission "for its own good", consider whether you would welcome that blockade, destabilization and bombs if they were falling on your roof and possibly killing your loved ones.
First of all I didn't speak about bombs falling on the heads of civilians because only heartless crazy individual would recommend that.
>Before claiming a country must be blockaded, starved and bombed into submission "for its own good"
Second I didn't speak about starving either.
But certain blockade and destabilization of oppressive regime is more then welcome because such regime should fall.
I never understood why everybody would be in favor of stopping some killer but if that killer or group of killers put some funny clothes and call themselves 'country' everybody kind of ok with them having millions of hostages.
>Don't recommend that others endure that which you and your loved ones are not willing to endure.
I was in Crimea already occupied by Russia during electricity blockade. Was I happy? I have suffered from it but I was welcoming it with both hands. Unfortunately it was not enough to return freedom and rights to Crimea and people living there so I would welcome something that would.
>Please! No more of this line of reasoning, it has caused suffering and damage time and time again.
Since I lived in the ussr and saw this evil empire with my own eyes you will see nothing but exactly this line of reasoning from me.
I cannot understand why ussr was allowed to exist for so long. Why people of the free world were closing their eyes to the crimes of this regime. Why it was not suffocated sooner.
I cannot understand why today people of the free world are ok with turtures in the middle of the Europe. I am talking about Belarus dictator where real people have spoken loudly what the want. Why real help didn't come to them? Why military help didn't come to Ukraine when Russia have occupied Crimea and later on two regions. Why it didn't come to democratic Georgia when Russia attacked them?
I cannot understand why Ukraine's young democracy is not in NATO or under full protection of NATO. I do not understand why free world doesn't stop Russia attacking their neigbours and taking away rights and freedoms of people.
I cannot understand why regimes like in Russia, North Korea, Iran and so on are allowed to exist at all and why they are allowed to torture people under their control and perhaps I never will. So Please! Don't even ask.
