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Actually you are right about him doing it to protect himself. But also not having America invading your country is good for the people too. You know how indiscriminately they bomb innocent people.
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I doubt it's good for them. The good for them would be reunification of Korea but South Korea don't want this yet because of the economic strain it would cause due the health and education of the North Korean population.
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While North Korea has some bad stories about what happens to some people there, the same could be said for a lot of other countries worse, including some African countries for example. Also plenty that are allies of the west. Remember we will happily sell bombs and weapons to the Saudie's and keep their questionable stuff out of the news. It's our governments view that Russia and North Korea be the bad guys now, as they have nowhere else to immediately attack to keep the military industrial complex money flowing.
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Russia and North Korea are not synonymous here. Whilst they're both a problem for the West the former is at least a functioning country with a rational, if aggressive, government. These things do exist on a scale and North Korea are at the end of that.
Most of these other states are at least functioning and do not develop nuclear weapons and pose a existential threat to their neighbors. Iran might be the closest that springs to mind but they're still relatively functioning. North Korea is something special here. It's not just 'our governments view' that North Korea are the bad guys, they are to anyone that takes even a passing interest in them.
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But the point being North Korea is not going to invade other countries even though America has tried to starve the country through sanctions, constantly attacking the country in this way. China is North Koreas biggest trade partner and keeps them in food and fuel as well as criticising the sanctions and action against them, much in the same way an ally would.[COLOR="Silver"]
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America has not tried to 'starve' the country. That is the fault of the North Korean government. If it wasn't for
America, South Korea and others in the 1990s then their famine would have been even worse. They stopped providing such assistance a few years ago but then started
again last year. The country has been struggling since the collapse of the Soviet Union and their cash cow. They never developed any other economy or infrastructure, especially outside Pyongyang, and failed hard. The sanctions only hit the ruling classes as there is no developed wealth to lose outside of capital. China's interest is limited to stopping the place collapsing entirely and having a immigration and security crisis (and America) on their doorstep. They're not allies.