Where are the North Korean people?
As an outsider, it might be hard to understand how this regime has survived with such power for so long with its population starving and without the barest amenities. As Justin Raimondo, cheif editor of antiwar.com, has said, North Korea is a nation that has maintained power through successful demonization of outsiders. It is, and has always been, the world against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. This may not be a tough sell to a people whose infrastructure and population was systematically brutalized by the American air force in the Korean War, and whose livelihoods have been severely compromised by sanctions that only seem to effect those without power (this was also the case in Iraq in the 90’s where sanctions were estimated to have been the cause of over a million dead children). If the U.S. and the world want to affect change on the northern part of the peninsula, the best thing they could do would be to normalize relations as quickly as possible and quit giving the Dea
