Lisa Jones wrote on Aug 9
th, 2017 at 7:42pm:
And he has no choice in the matter.
He has a choice. Everyone has a choice. He chooses to dabble with nuclear weapons.
Lisa Jones wrote on Aug 9
th, 2017 at 7:42pm:
Now explain to me how anyone can strengthen their regime by starving it.
The Kim Regime, under former leader Kim Jong-Il institute the 'military first' policy in which all resources were first designate to the military.
As long as the military are well fed and paid, then they will be satisfied.
Now, the common people, however, are a different matter. Malnourishing people is a way to control them more easily with their bullshit propaganda of Juche. Sure, the elite of Pyongyang are doing fine, and are buying in to the whole thing; but so long as the majority of the people are malnourished, Kim can control his people.
One of the reasons why North Korea has lasted for as long as it has is because it's managed to balance all of these things. It is, in one sense, the most perfect totalitarian regime. There's a massive Cult of Personality followed by a military elite.