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Alright. Time to face facts. NK's leadership is not the way it is because it likes to be mean and closed and starve its people
It's just that other govts don't want to help it; they instead want to just exploit its desperate position to their advantage, and the US govt is notorious for doing that. The aid packages offered by nations (including the US) always come w/exploitative conditions. So for NK to surrender its nukes means surrendering its sovereignty and of course, it doesn't want that.
What NK should do is follow the China model of reforms--making a slow gradual transition to a more efficient market economy. It should try to establish closer relations w/China, if possible.
It also wouldn't hurt NK to allow the UN to inspect its nukes, assuming it has any that are functional. Once a nuclear deterrent is present and working, there's no reason for secrecy.
NK can reform itself w/the right leadership. We can only hope that the son rises to the challenge and makes it happen.
Making up excuses for a dictatorship, eh? Not that I expected much.
China already rules North Korea.
North Korea already made its decision to be isolated. Didn't you even heard of the Yeongpyong attacks, the Korean Air bombing, the Yangon bombing, or all those other hostile acts?
Next, you'll probably say that the US engineered all of them. :doh