Because north korea only make empty threats and the west are hypocrites and never gave a damn,aboyt internstional law, democracy and human rights in other countries

We all see and hear what goes on over there.

Bullshit.

Same reason why no one does anything about the atrocities that happen within the US.

Nukes baby!

Ah, the old question about what to do about North Korea, it occupies the minds of many, there are some answers, many lead to more questions, and so on.

The stakes are increadibly high, so we have to tread very carefully.

Let’s bring up a few key facts.

1. NK is a totalitarian state with a huge personality cult surrounding the Kim family.
2. NK is supported by both China and Russia, they both have a highly vested interest in keeping the status quo.
3. NK is located within artillery range of SK’s capital city, Seoul.
4. NK’s society is vastly different from all of it’s neighbours, even the language used in NK is noticably different from the language spoken in SK.
5. NK has nuclear weapons.
6. NK does not have a problem ignoring the normal rules of diplomacy.

Now, you ask what other countries can do to help the people of NK, that is a hugely complicated question, which in general is mostly answered with an answer no one really wants to hear:

Support the current regime

For any proper aid to get into NK you need the support of the regime, and they will take the credit for the aid.

I saw a documentary of a film crew following a team of surgeons travelling to NK to help people who had lost their sight, it was a simple operation, preformed and funded by foreign organizations, the regime had only allowed the team access.

The operation took maybe a few min per patient, they replaced a lens in the eyes of the patient, and as soon as the patient was done, they rushed to the portraits of the leaders of NK, got on their knees and thanked them deeply for their graciousness of restoring their eyesight.

This is the kind of society NK is, everything is tied to the leader.

This is the starting point, and you have 26 million people to deal with…

Ok, say that a world power decide that they have had enough with the Kim family and this is worth going to war over.

What can we expect?

Regardless of what countries are involved, Seoul WILL be bombarded.

So now the attacker is hated both in NK and SK as well as probably a lot of other countries.

NK will use their nukes, and possibly other WMD they have.

Then comes China…

China loves NK as a buffer against the west, so they would and have deployed the PLA to save NK.

“Step in?” Well, because the world isn’t run by a mom and dad who step in and make governments do the right things.

America already tried to save the North Koreans once. It was called the “Korean War”.

We bombed them back to the stone age, then permanently isolated them from most of the world. Despite having good reasons for the start of the war, America treated NK like Israel currently treats Gaza.

Even if North Koreans tried to forget that America bombed every hospital, every water purification plant, all the electricity production, etc; the Kim regime’s propaganda will make sure they never forget.

If we actually wanted to help those people, the first step would be removal of economic sanctions. There is no clean way to remove dictatorship, but the “Arab Spring” model is much more effective and humane than the “Afghanistan War” model.

Because - improbably, given its track record elsewhere - the world has worked out that the solution to someone killing kids isn’t to kill more kids.

Watch Time Ghost’s series on the Korean War.

First of all, there are a lot of people willing to die for their country as it is. As soon as people are willing to give up their lives, you’re not changing shit. These people didn’t grow up like you and me.

Secondly, there is a world of difference between stepping in and stepping in. One of the main reasons that North Korea is so isolated is because of sanctions. That is also a form of stepping in.

Thirdly, we already saw war and foreign meddling in that area. That’s exactly why America is the great evil opponent of North Korea. That’s not a coincidence or just because Kim Il Sung, Kim Jung Il or Kim Jung Un hated “freedom”.

Now you ask, what other solution is there?!

Well, a lot of people are actually working on that. By launching information campaigns and spreading Western/foreign music into the country. Real change comes from within. But please remember that this country is now lead by the third generation of absolute leader.

The same reason you never hear from what happens inside abusive households until someone from within speaks up (aka: a “defector”)

Edit: As for the follow up questions:

Imagine you live in the “hood” where the authorities doesn’t do shit, and you see someone who’s part of a gang abuse their child, are you gonna go confront them at the risk of getting your whole family shot to death? That’s what MAD is like on the world stage. North Korea has China as an ally, don’t forget about that.

Because that roads leads to war. The moment one country decides it has the authority to overule another’s sovereignity because they disagree with what’s going on there, it becomes a free for all.

This line of thinking is the very reason why there are two Koreas today, because of two superpowers who thought they knew better and could make a nice profit in the process.

We have a word for this: Colonialism.

We live in a sad world, western democracy with high standard regarding human right are the exception, not the norm.

So are we gonna start war against every dictatorship? Look at the results in Afghanistan instead of freeing them, they now rank worse than North Korea in the economist democracy index not only they got a 20 year long war, but in the end stayed one one of the worst dictatorship in the planet, not really a success

Seoul is so close to the border, it’s within artillery range of NK. Kim can cause all kinds of havoc without resorting to nukes. If provoked enough, he could put one (or more) craters in South Korea’s largest city, without even playing his scariest card.

Then there’s the possibility of a military response from China. Nobody wants to be on the receiving end of that.

Lastly, NK has been under all kinds of sanctions for years. It might not be the “anything” you have in mind, but many nations seem to be doing about as much as they can without risking all-out war.

• China would be really pissed off about that.

• The major problem is what do you do with the massive humanitarian crises you after you remove the regime?You will have to care for millions of people who have had everything given to them.

• Tthis is really messed up, what is the economic interest in doing something about it?