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Originally Posted by mapuc
So When will the citizen in NK see their governmen being hit by the Iron hand from USA and the west ?
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The problem with the Iron Hand is you break something with it, you gotta fix it. Certainly Iraq and Libya have shown the consequences of doing an incomplete job. Better not to start in my opinion. Crushing all the world's tyrants sounds satisfying, but you often have kill a whole lot of people you wish to liberate to get to them, and the resulting power vacuum and the law of unintended consequences have to be dealt with somehow. Plus, I don't think China and Russia would just stand idly by anymore than they did in 1950.
Anyway, the problem that the North Korean population faces, and what keeps them loyal to the country's leadership despite their deplorable conditions, is that they have no sense of relative deprivation. North Korea is an information bubble with little outside information allowed into the country. Internet access, literature, movies, or any medium of expression that does not expound the greatness of dear leader or the philosophy of
Juche are prohibited; radio and television signals from outside the country are routinely jammed as well, so there not much in the way for the people to know what is going on outside the country other than what they are told by the state. Although this is changing, it's at a glacial pace. But barring some emergency we may have to content ourselves with that.
The North uses the U.S. as a prop to blame them for all of their domestic problems. So if there are food shortages or no electricity to power the country, outside of Pyongyang of course, it is not evidence of North Korea's failure, but rather the fault of the "imperialist aggressors". When people are fed such a daily barrage of propaganda, it is not hard to see why these people are so brainwashed.